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Prison of the Self

from Degenerate Music by Novus spero

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When you could barely see the waves
The tide was to your knees
Dragging you away
From the womb that was your cage
Succorant and safe
Now you can’t escape
From the prison of the self
Claw marks line the lonely walls
But you scale it in vain
Condemned before you learned to crawl
When the doctors wrote your name
Sentenced to yourself
When the skin you wore was new
You never wondered what you were
But nature stretched your frame
And now the knowledge is a cage
You medicate your thoughts
But the chemicals wear off
Then you’re alone inside yourself
Your body weaves a tapestry
Of sorrow and regret
A history left incomplete
When it goes the way of all flesh
The void awaits the self
You drink but always thirst
And you wonder why you hurt
Do you do it to yourself?
You carry up your cross each day
But salvation flees your reach
Your dried-out tongue can’t make the shapes
To elaborate its needs
And the universe just shrugs
You do it to yourself

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from Degenerate Music, released July 1, 2014

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Gospel of the final human century.
San Diego, CA / Hemet, CA / Flagstaff, AZ

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