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Chorus of Discouragement

from A Better World Rejected by Selfist

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I coat myself in blood and ash
To camouflage my true intentions
‘Cause when this suffering comes to pass
I think its hardly worth a mention
That this terminus we’ve been drifting to
This aftermath we’ve been sifting through
Is all part and parcel of the same mistake
We thought we’d roasted at the stake
So take that hatchet out of your back
And bury it in my fucking face
It’s a postscript I’ll embrace

Give in
A chorus of discouragement crescendos
In vain I stir the dying fire’s embers

As I externalize my deficiencies
These alibis become priorities
Compartmentalize all the dreams I’ve killed
Uninspired and unfulfilled
Caught in a cycle
Disconsolate future
Despondent and spiteful
My screws coming looser
I’m blurring the boundaries
Of dreams and reality
The simplest confounds me
I’ve lost rationality
Falling to pieces
I’m doomed to repeat this
Route that leads nowhere
My maps obsolete
The compass keeps spinning as I drag my feet
Nearing the summit I look for a view
Searching in vain for a sliver of truth
No trail to guide me, no landmark beside me
I’ve been here before but my instincts divide me
Failure ahead, regret is behind me
One life to live, I just keep climbing
Sleepwalk through landslides
Somnambulant alpine
Guided by visions
Misreading the signs
Torn between choices
Confusing the voices
That echo through valleys that stretch beyond time
(Analysis pointless, no reason or rhyme)

We trace a circle in the dirt
To welcome back the apparition
That we worked so hard to banish
From our nebulous cognition
When it vanished our relief
Was joyous, genuine and brief
As scars once healed opened up again to bleed
We held our dripping limbs above the seeds
That they might grow a new myth for us to believe

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from A Better World Rejected, released July 10, 2023

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