INVERTED CENTIPEDE

This moral compass held so dear
Does it show the way, unpicking fears
Is it a lighthouse for the storm?
Foreshadowing the void

I want to know the world
You want to feel the truth
We want to see the dead
I want to hear what they said
When we raised them up
And we rattled their bones
With the rats and the dogs and the fear

Tomorrow’s children will summon forth a storm
And yesterday’s mother, leaves us on the flames

Shattered shards of free will
Nothing at all to do with me
the forests, the lakes,
the carpet crawlers coming down

Holy comet on the way
Here to show the error of our ways
A flood will come to wash away
The piss and the shit and the spit and the blood

The deeper I dig, the harder I fall
I climb out of my hole just to jump back in
Again, again, again and again
Inverted centipede, sabotage my brain

Idle hands of dogma closed to pray
Chained unto itself, gnawing logic away
A torch to illuminate the pews
Or burn the face of a faithful few?

We both want this world
We both fear the truth
We want to drink the wine
We want to be understood
But when we look at ourselves
There’s a parasite
In the heart of the fleas, on the rats, chasing dogs

Tomorrow’s children will summon forth a storm
Yesterday’s fathers blinded by the flames

Racing down these corridors
I take a door with no name
Am I there or inside
Am i alive or are we dead

Holy comet on the way
Here to show the error of our ways
A flood will come to wash away
The piss and the shit and the spit and the blood

I’m losing my mind, you’re losing your soul
Step through my shadow just to get back control
Again, again, again and again
Inverted centipede sabotage my brain

Save me
Save us
Save yourself
Save everything in this crippled world
Your miracles are needed now

Aching
Haunted
Breaking
Just like your monoliths of stone
The tragedy is over now

You were just a bad joke
You were just a careless whisper

Whisper,
Whisper,
Your miracles are needed now

Whisper
Whimper
Crumble
The tragedy is over now

Save me
Save us
Save yourself
Save everything in this crippled world
Your miracles are needed now

Aching
Haunted
Breaking
Just like your monoliths of stone
The tragedy is over now