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What life is this, sorry and sordid

Trapped in a fucking cave

The mad dance persists

Seizure after seizure

Deep within the base of the universe

The cries find no escape

From this ageless eternal prison

A witness to decaying phantoms

I pound the walls, I kick the bars

Adamant rebellion locks my fingers

Against this infernal tapestry

No prayer may rise

The cold light of the stars

Travels faintly through the cracks

A cluster of bones reveals

Dim windows to eternal paradise

Whose is the voice

That suddenly breaks into speech

A strange liturgy falls from my mouth

This is no truth I've known

But a greater tragedy lies

Upon the remains of my temple of stars

A lifetime of staring into mirrors

Such putrid gods I've served