Embers to End - Respire

(twentytwenty, was it all worth it?

Bodies line the years, doomed kin festers)

Survive

Survive this by screaming into yourself

Things can’t get worse, every year only seems

To feel worse (when they come for you)

Are we all safe now?

are we all fitting in?

Assimilate to forget we never belonged

Dissociate to beset the nature of fleetingness

The fear (will it comfort you?)

Th home we dreamt up, carrid away

The home we dreamt up, carried away

The life we could have had, a promise never meant

I thought I knew where I came from

Where I fit in, where I relate

The tides will change

The ground will shift

Nothing stays true

(meant nothing)

You strive all your life to feel welcome in their world, paying dues — used,

consumed

When their walls come tumbling down, who’d you think will be the first blamed

for the fall

Fire feeds panic swells (false sense security)

Desperate, take the bait

Chaos feeds hatred sells (false flag civility)

Desolate, take the fall

(oh god)

You don’t know what you have till it’s gone

Stars won’t smile on you (stars won’t smile)

There’s no end in sight

Where you don’t lose it all

No matter when, no matter how

So fester, wound

Death kneels hardly still

Time ends on all

Fester, wound

We lost our home and so will you

Time ends on all still

Saving nothing, flailing down (coward)

We’ll always get the last word (choke)

Only time till we’re all displaced (another war)

Who will get the last laugh?

(one last laugh)

Frail obedient wretch

Swallow grievance from a millionaire’s scorn

You’re nothing more than an ember to the flame

The fires rage to your neighborhoods still

Coward, you’re nothing more than an ember to the flame