Stalemate - Project 86

I’ve sought so hard to attain this gain

Now watch me give this ground away

What can I do but admit I’m in over my head?

Colors fade from blue to dark red

Backed into a corner by my choices

And I’m hearing those same dark voices

At the mercy of my desires helpless, trivial

I’m left with no defenses

Stimulus, response, repeated failures

I’m sick, this sickness fills my senses

But despite my apparent loss I see release

This stalemate, my peace

Your wilderness is

Stalemate

You can’t move against me

Stalemate

The walls built around me

Stalemate

You can’t move against me

Stalemate

The walls built around me

Stalemate

You can’t move against me

Stalemate

The walls built around me

And as this theme continues to follow close behind

I see so clearly

If I would only let go of my tendencies

Then I’d know what it is to be free

I can’t win when I indulge this fantasy

Reduced as a pawn led to misery

A little detour won’t hurt

Let me change you slowly

A moment’s pleasure, but you’ll owe me

All encompassing defeat awaits the day

I choose to plunge and embrace this nightmare

But the night has an end and I see you

And you see me as the dawn of the one

Who’s adopted my ailment, my sickness

My stalemate reveals my blindness to my own condition

Your wilderness is

Stalemate

You can’t move against me

Stalemate

The walls built around me

Stalemate

You can’t move against me

Stalemate

The walls built around me

Stalemate

You can’t move against me

Stalemate

The walls built around me

I’ll still run away from

Six seconds of defeat

Six years of agony

I’ll still stand at odds with

Six seconds of defeat

Six years of agony

I’ll still run away from

Six seconds of defeat

Six years of agony

I’ll still stand at odds with

Six seconds of defeat

Six years of agony

I’m senseless, erode my senses

To fill my day with indulgence

Which leads to my undoing

I’ll never look back

I’ll never taste it again

I’ll never stop

You can’t stop me