Second Son

by Gracious Bears

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lyrics

An idle mind dines
While the moon's never been fuller
Sippin on the fine wines
Conscious gets duller

Slippin away, slippin away
Slippin away now
Gonna find a new bed to lie in
In search of peace

Cause this belief of mine
Is that I can't breathe
Everybody looks at me sideways
I can't speak

Just wrap me up warm
In a blanket and send me away
No good to anybody
I'm hiding my face

Disappear without a trace
Into the vortex
I'll never straighten up
Because my inner core's bent

And I resent every word
You ever said to me
Take not one motion of truth
Never meant to be

What you said, what he said
What she said, everybody dead
...
And I'm left

All alone, all alone
As I so often am
When you can't trust the daylight
And the night is a sham

Take solice in nothing
Embrace all my apathy
Doesn't matter what I do
They're all gonna laugh at me

I've tried all I can
And I've seen no returns
But I still keep on pushing
Cause a fool never learns

Til he shuts out the world
That he's burned so recklessly
Why did I do this?
They pushed me relentlessly

So the conscious gets duller
Sippin on the cheap wine
Moon's never been fuller
My idle mind dies

Take my hand second son
As I lead you to oblivion
Turned over supernova
Wreckless the meridian

The testament of Simeon
Blessed is the mind
Hollowed out and gutted
Leaving everything behind

An acolyte of nothing
The patreon saint of tears
Happiness is faltering
Sadness feeds the biosphere

Reaping what you sow
With a psyche unblushing
But it doesn't really matter
When everything is nothing

Darkness, shadow
Sounds are blurry and dim
The air reeks of shit, scurvy
Murder and sin

If my throat wasn't choked
I could shout at the top of my voice
But I know
No-one is listening

Submission
I know I could repent
Anything to not repeat
As my body is rent and bent

A feel it
And the
Soles of my feet are aching
March defeated like a soldier's retreat

Enveloping my thoughts
Wrapping round my neck like pincers
Of some hidden creatures

Some dark thing awakened
Crawling in my soul
I feel goosebumps like static
Raise on my skin

Eyes masked in shrouds
Hands wrapped in black silk
Are clinging to my wrists
And all I taste is

Black milk
Sour tang from the iron
Of my own blood sticking to my
Gums like a sucker punch

Teeth crushed
And my legs are heavy as lead
RUN! brain said but I'm already
As good as dead

Barbed wire in my chest
Gulping air like
Nope, tunnel vision fades
My last sign of hope

Disappears like wisps
Of smoke, i choke
As I'm trying to breathe
Under trees made of evergreen

I'm suffocated and gagged
Chopped up, castrated
And buried on wasteland
In plastic bags

credits

released October 31, 2020
Prod. by K2G
Mixed by J-Cray-Z
Lyrics by C. Gent & J. Mannings
Photography by Belle Art Photography
belleartphotography.co.uk