Mercy - Tanuki

We all amass

A weightless and shapeless form that colors every curve

Leave us feeling blind

We can’t connect the fragments

We made from pulling pieces off this map

With turns that take you too far out to ever make it back

It starts

Like pressure

That sits behind the eyes like fingertips

Dancing on weighted keys

Like teeth

That tumble

Out from hungry mouths in search of feed

Tasting only rust from where they bleed

A CERTAIN SELF-DEFEAT

And as the pain in us subsides

We learn to beg for death before we’re gone

DO YOU FEEL THIS

And as the hope we held begins to die

We find that it meant nothing all along

DON’T FIGHT, IT’S WORST TO RESIST

LET GO, BECAUSE THERE’S NO SAVING THIS

This could have been me

I would have been every favored son

The envy of all

The end to every fall

It tore at the crease

It folded in ways I couldn’t see

I could only meet the miles with my scream

A shell to armor through the crush

Bleed them out with bites and fall apart at every touch

A slice that cuts you to the bone

With surgical precision, they empty out your soul

And as the pain in us subsides

We learn to beg for death before we’re gone

DO YOU FEEL THIS

And as the hope we held begins to die

We find that it meant nothing all along

I don’t want you to know this pain

It will only pull you under

You’ll be crushed beneath the weight

I don’t want you to know this pain

It will only pull you under

You’ll be crushed beneath the weight

I don’t want you to know this pain

It will only pull you under

You’ll be crushed beneath the weight

JUST RUN, SEVER THE TRUST

JUST KNOW, THEY’LL ALWAYS COME FOR US