Wake Up Dead

Listen to the creature with October in his eyes As I illustrate the features just to mold them into life I’ll hold it with my hands and I’ll sculpt it into ice Just so I can set her free and let her soar into the sky Follow me into the grim odyssey the villain’s in Haunting like a diligent zombie ’til it kills again All I see’s a colony of oddities and ill intent Feeling bent, swallowing the qualities of innocence In a sense, there’s a sickness in my chest If you think that life’s a b***h you should give her some respect Maybe she’s a xenophobe, a victim of neglect And the impotence you have is just a symptom of the stress (yes) All I know is that there is no certainty in life I hold Weather in Seattle matches perfectly inside my skull Everything is dark, everything is grey and cold Laying out the canvas just so I can let the paint unfold Phantom in the rainfall, phantasmagoric Plastered in the same spot but can’t manage solace Standing in the graveyard with hands clamped in fore grip Chant until the days gone, a fantastic courtship (YOU) Look into my eyes and try to find a breath of life (SEE) All the mysteries and secrets that I kept disguised (THROUGH) All the perfect insecurities I meant to hide (ME) Ain’t no way because I always feel so dead inside Now I spell “dedicate” with another letter, “a” Walk into the center stage, caught up into heaven’s gate Every single step I take reminds me of the death I taste Unfulfilled promises or ones I didn’t get to make Unless they break, but I’m modest with the greeting Over existential and my confidence is sinking Swallowed all my pride, my esophagus is bleeding Ominous and seething, watching but I’m nauseous from the feeding This what you get when you’ve been greeted with an echo Just another operatic sequence in falsetto Just another very tragic piece of a libretto Just another charismatic demon in the meadow Sneaky with the silver tongue, now I’ve lost my thrill for blood Falling to my knees as the shadows start to close in Take my last breath, grab my own lifeless hand Let the silence in and I finally…fall asleep (asleep) (asleep) (asleep) (asleep)