Bridge of Broken Bones - Gutter Instinct

Venomous clusters resonate between bars of a cage

Awakening the shadows, poisoning all that is real

A damp filthy rag shoved down the throat

A smothering veil through which no light will pass

Gasping for air in a world submerged in bile

Dragged from life, over a sea of sulphur

Across the bridge of broken bones

Into crypts of fire, into endless nothing

Across the bridge of broken bones

Disease-ridden parasite, an anchor of burden

Dawnswallower yanking the chain from below

The womb of hope gives birth to a stillborn child

Soaked in cascades of disappointment

Injects anesthetic of unfulfilled dreams

Numb all the senses

The weight of the world

That was once in bloom

Now withers and dies