(The Chorus Sang) A Dead Refrain Lyrics


Skyscrapers are crumbling, mountains move in my path

The streets lights are twisting, pulling me to the earth

My veins are anchored in this city

I am defeated by this lack of conviction

I am crushed by 800 miles, eyes widened in self loathing

When the fucking dirt proves stronger than the most pure emotion that I’ve ever fucking had

So what is left in life but my destruction?

Why do my lungs still gasp when they no longer breathe for you?

Where is the truth in my existence

When I have been cut off from your tender fingertips

All that I’ve known falls down around me

Every twisting tree and dead end street reminding me of you

Taking me back a year

My life crawls on without you amongst the endless snowing sheets

Disheartening moments of salvation come to me only when I am asleep

I no longer stomach the denial hiding the weakness of my being

The day to day has been a slow blur since you left, only forgiveness sets me free

The bridges collapsing, hillsides are growing fast

The pavement is shifting, quicksand controls my will

I question life and it's true meaning

I am defeated by this feebleness of will

Frenzied thoughts arrest my mind

As I descend towards my eminent destruction

The only thing I can rely on when I lie even to myself

Skyscrapers are crumbling, mountains move in my path

The streets lights are twisting, pulling me to the earth

My veins are anchored in this city

I am defeated by this lack of conviction

Am I already dead?

I proceed hollow, unloved

I am our burnt out memory

Self-mutilation is my mainstay

Tear me away from the pictures of your face

Pry my eyes from your written word

Tear me away from the bondage of regret

Convince me that I am alive

This is the end, the end of everything

All I held dear has slipped from my grasp

This is the end, the end of everything

All whom I’ve loved are fucking memories

This is the end, the end of everything

As I am ripe for this demise

This is the end, the end of everything

I kneel, godless and beaten

I long for moments when my eyes aren’t blinded by emptiness