Shape of the Truth

Never solved
Peels at you
Digging and clawing
Hooks into your skin
What's revealed underneath
What secrets are beneath
Forgive everyone
We all have them
Bugs in our minds
Burrowing ever deeper
No way to dig them out
Hear the clicking
Feel the crawling
Persistent and unfading
Marking us all in our
Own personal ways
They burn, the questions
That will never be
Answered, forever
A mystery that drives
Us all into insanity
Trying harder gets you
Nothing in the end
Have to hold your
Breath and ignore the rot
Pretend it smells sweet
That everything's all fine
No more emptiness
Knowing the truth is cold
Oh, so very cold
Waiting for the next thaw

Find the Way Out

Climb up out of the pit
Lock and load, baby
Time to destroy it all now
Feet pound the ground

Pull out and pump up
Get your blood flowing
Not scared, won’t cower
Crash onto the floor

Climb up out of the pit
Lock and load, baby
Time to destroy it all now
Feet pound the ground

Grit in my teeth
Dirt under my fingernails
Not the right way
Don’t care about that

Climb up out of the pit
Lock and load, baby
Time to destroy it all now
Feet pound the ground

Have to crawl out
Hands and knees raw
Live another day now
Nothing else matters but

Running faster and shooting
Harder, making something of
Myself, finding out how to
Survive this pit of hell

Climb up out of the pit
Lock and load, baby
Time to destroy it all now
Feet pound the ground

Must get out of here somehow
Danger in every direction around me
Endless paths to curl up and cry on
So many different ways to die

Climb up out of the pit
Lock and load, baby
Time to destroy it all now
Feet pound the ground

Fall Under

Can’t get out of my head
Thoughts spinning around
Endlessly wandering about
What is there to face today

Hard to let go, let go
Impossible to hold on
Drowning in the truths
Can’t find a single one

Hard to figure out the truth
So many different kinds of lies
Bury them so deep and secret
Digging them up is hard work

Hard to let go, let go
Impossible to hold on
Drowning in the truths
Can’t find a single one

Need to keep a grip on myself
Reality holds nothing here
Slips right through my fingers
Clings to my skin as it drops

Hard to let go, let go
Impossible to hold on
Drowning in the truths
Can’t find a single one

Hard to know where to step
How to navigate my way through
Manage to grasp onto it once and
Have to let go or be pulled down

Hard to let go, let go
Impossible to hold on
Drowning in the truths
Can’t find a single one

Nothing is permanent here
Those clinging thoughts fall
Everything disappears fast
Into the void of the forgotten

Hard to let go, let go
Impossible to hold on
Drowning in the truths
Can’t find a single one

Ignore the forlorn feeling
Thousands of thoughts overwhelm
Just another mark of wishes
Turning into dust in my hands

Hard to let go, let go Impossible to hold on Drowning in the truths Can’t find a single one

Behold Yourself

Hide the tracks
Don’t reveal the tricks
Hold your breath
Don’t forget the time

Have to fight on
Make the right decisions
No chance for second guesses
Just another day on the job

Don’t drop your guard
Always be on the lookout
Pitfalls and traps become the norm
Quicksand hard to walk through

Smile, smile everyone
But don’t forget the struggle
If something seems easy
Be wary of the hidden noose

Read the mind and predict
Where the next hit will fall
It’s the only way to win
To not be dragged back under

No chance to cower
When you’re trying so hard to
Figure out how to survive
In a world that runs away

Just know that there’s so
Much you don’t understand yet
And fight your way through
Until you learn to stay awake

Be always on the go
Rocking back and forth
Reflection distorted and warped
What is there to see?