Laments - Endwell

Fuck your expectations

New breed manipulation

Propagating paradise

And selling devastation

Choirs of discontent

Sing refrains inside my head

Clearly I’m not fortunate

But I live with my mistakes

And the judgments that they bring

I’m reminded every day

A man can only take so much

Before his mind degenerates

Before he can’t take his own face

Before he exercises rage

Choirs of discontent

Sing refrains inside my head

So foolish, foolish to dream

I was the only one, I was the only one

So foolish, foolish to think

The stars were lining up, God smiling down on us

Gave up a thousand times

But then I fell right back in line

Back to where the choices end

This cycle I can’t defend

I condescend, wake up and snap the fuck out of this

Half-assessed desperate attempt

To fill the void within your head

To fill the void that you created

Damned from the start

Now all the lights begin to fade

And the cameras cut away

All the actors leave the stage

The curtains falling back in place

Suddenly anticipating

That same haunting refrain

Now with even greater haste

The swan begins to sing

The swan begins to sing

I’m not afraid, not afraid at all

Life is fleeting

This rivalry, a memory gone

Life is fleeting

The sky was tall and stars don’t fall

Life is fleeting

Til there was nothing left

In the Heavens

But the echoes of our questions

Life is fleeting

This rivalry, a memory gone

Life is fleeting

So often in the course of life’s fleeting years

A single pleasure costs a thousand tears

Life is fleeting

Find a purpose, find a reason

Make this worth it

Life is fleeting