Scared Eyes Don't Blink

Bridges don't burn they crumble. Pavements return to jungle Humans, they stumble. Scrape away unique skin for their version number Make way for the tundra, underneath the clawed feet there's the mind of a hunter Prone, it'll wait so patient watching as everything is torn asunder This gift of consciousness marches us backwards and watches us Mocking us, fucking monsters just toppling this rock on top of us What should we do but stop and just climb aloft of these monuments Carved of this earth in obvious primitive worship of gods and it's Sick that we nevеr learned as a unit that we'rе alone on this body circling this star And that life ain't born of the stone and with so many minds attacking this problem we Could've grown And hit galaxies now so distant that we're just too old to leave home And it's our own destruction, denounce those thoughts and crush them Well fuck them, it's no excuse to say that as humans we must believe in something Just look upwards. All the proof you need is above us Then take Africa and say your God let's those people die through a lack of sustenance This rock will spin, rhythmic in a perfect orbit swing Dancing rings around a siren that sings, until she calls it in Furnace absorbs the thing that gave the fire its name We called it Sun. And for one brief moment science gave us all some wings Two thousand years won't touch it Our own survival rivals no past species does it? Equals nothing, mindset stuck on tribal Trends follow two decade cycles, people stop pushing Minds'll wither. We just stop looking. Born with a view for the suicidal And so as I overlook this fuck wit country nothing hits Go ahead and pull the switch, caring's such a loveless bitch I'll try on empathy and I'm stuck if that cap doesn't fit Fuck everything. Let that next species sort through the crap and the dust that we kicked Up Stand back and watch us sinking, we're not living, just existing Take these hand wraps, I'm not swinging. I won't fight while you've stopped thinking Perched on the brink in mourning as we're falling, break through blinking Into a noose that's twisting taught and pinching, choking, life force lifting One last performance as the mask adorned now slips and breaks The face, once adored is twisted as shards rip the stage The props, they crumble as he grabs at them in fits of rage Pick up the slack, the rope becomes an ally as it lifts his weight Right there before you the actors hanging, you stand applauding No sense of justice it's just you're caught in this self absorption You give no thought to the plight, that you, the character's caught in No idea what's real and what isn't, self imprisonment forcing You down deeper. Pressing, keep pressing, highlight deep depression Twilight again, no sleep, restless, can't switch off you keep on questioning Life, like seconds tick to death and it's all you can do just to beat your breath to it Inhale, still alive, I'm left with nothing else but a sense of regret for everything Because scared eyes don't blink, and mine don't either If these are the last words I'll breathe I'll leave knowing that I did all I could do, that I couldn't breathe deeper Couldn't exhale more words that meant more when sent and received by all of these people All I ever had was a mic, so un-godlike, just retreat into the ether Made in the image of a conclave, brainstorming the perfect god-face A new saviour born on the top page of a book made to restore all the lost faith And as it took shape it took hold of the cold and hungry and fear they could not shake The information void got filled with the stories of rich men science can't replace And you're still tied to that tether. Told by the rich you'll be fine up in heaven Millions over the ages all giving up lives for the stories and violence is weathered and wars that are waged All in the name of a ghost, that easily science could sever And let us move onwards, and if there is anything out there allow us to find it together