Human Anthem - Emergence

Pacing in a gilded cage

Youthful lust turns to rage

You turn your fear into a need

Scratch your sores until they bleed

Take solace in a stranger’s bed

You find no love but pain instead

Within your mind an awful din

The world grows smaller as the walls start closing in

Stigmatic mentors love to grind

Shards of hate into your mind

As distances grow longer

You leave familiar dreams behind

So trenchant in your slow decay

Deteriorating everyday

The whispers in your head insist

There’s got to be another way

Enamored of a golden cross

Immerse yourself to conceal your loss

An edifice with marble walls

You’ll find no peace within its halls

Weeping icons with stony eyes

In mute reprisal bear your lies

A swelling void consumes your soul

With each concession you dig yourself a deeper hole

Stigmatic mentors love to grind

Shards of hate into your mind

As distances grow longer

You leave familiar dreams behind

So trenchant in your slow decay

Deteriorating everyday

The whispers in your head insist

There’s got to be another way