The Lotus Eater

Liquid is in your throat
For hopeless delight

After all you fell in love with death
Life has aborted
All you've had and all you became
The night is calling, you pray forth

A barren waste is your land
Crops, they were sown to die

The skin is a mirror
The eyes hollow with ignorance
Health runs from your lips
Sucked in and safe from the world of sleep

All years, all years caring for a liar
The barren drift road is winding higher
You're a moth too close to the fire

You are stuck in a route of confusion
Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all

Fleeing in sorrows
Pushing your spirit away

Sick of the weakness of the psyche
Whisper from the heart of evil
Luring them all into despair
Resenting the goods of a savior

Cries out
Restless will also die

A selection culled from the damned
Drawing a lifeline of one
A friend died in your room
And sought the birth of a follower

Oh, brother!
You're a killer, and you target yourself
I wish you'd never come back
For us to see the beckoning end

And the pride of a mother
Drawn close in a mother's son
And the love from a father
Was used by a father's son, ah

And the pride of a mother
Drawn close in a mother's son
And the love from a father
Was used by a father's son

Overheard us talking
In a smoke of lost hope
The language of a parting
So clear and so true

Overheard us talking