Puzzle Box -

No escape, I navigate through my cave

(Latent memories forming deep inside of me)

Beneath the skin, they keep us in night and day

(Dormant barren visceral senses now subdued)

Parasite, leech upon the guilt from all my wrongs

Lead me on the pathway to the core

Paralyzed, staring through the shadows on the wall

Unable to solve this puzzle box

The journey’s long, the shadows dance around

The answer lies beyond the fourth wall

My future days are etched into my skull

Hanging ever by a tethered body, mind and soul

Parasite, leech upon the guilt from all my wrongs

Lead me on the pathway to the core

Paralyzed, staring through the shadows on the wall

Unable to solve this puzzle box

Truth or deception?

I lose all perception inside

A fleeting sense of self-worth (self-worth)

Evaporates into nothingness

A tepid grip on myself (myself)

Melts away to oblivion

Shadows on the wall dance around

Reflections in the amber to be found

A puppet on a string soon unwound

The truth inside the cave soon to be unbound

The path beyond the mountain led me here

The answer crystallized in history

But now the cracks of time begin to show

We lift the veil on what the future holds

The torture of entrapment ever grows

And now I’m waiting for the afterglow

A beast inside of me awakening

Alas the consequences of my sins

Shadows on the wall dance around

Reflections in the amber to be found

A puppet on a string soon unwound

The truth inside the cave soon to be unbound

(Parasites as thick as thieves

Paralyzed my golden wings

Bouncing off the walls

Latent memories (erupting)

Pulling at the cord

Earth beneath my feet (is trembling)

Lightning cracks the sky

Wakening the beast (inside me)

Rawness in his eyes

Reeking stench of fear (and regret)

Bouncing off the walls

Latent memories (erupting)

Pulling at the cord

Earth beneath my feet (is trembling)

Lightning cracks the sky

Wakening the beast (inside me)

Rawness in his eyes

Reeking stench of fear (and regret)

(Cause and consequence

Show me reverence

Fate or circumstance?

I feel severance

Lightning cracks the sky

Eyes intensify

I will stay trapped inside

Until the cells divide)

How can truth set us free when lies are all we have?

How can time heal us when our days are running out?

How can truth set us free when lies are all we have?

How can time heal us when our days are running out?