The Tempest (the Siren's Song, The Banshee's Cry)

Song The Tempest (the Siren's Song, The Banshee's Cry)
Artist The Agonist
Album Lullabies For The Dormant Mind

Lyrics

[00:04.60] I say!
[00:07.35] Why do you grip so hard, that way?
[00:11.03] Of what, is there left to be afraid?
[00:12.92] Let the waves elope with your empty remains.
[00:16.98] They erode your foothold, anyway.
[00:21.06] They mosh, unaware of their own might.
[00:24.93] Hypnotizing.
[00:26.71] Shore-ward swallowing.
[00:28.94] They storm me, ganging up on me!
[00:30.74] What's become of the home that suppored me?
[00:32.86] They spit me back after drowning me then slip away dragging their fingers behind them.
[00:37.23] But you expel the salt, sink down lower than the undertow would being you.
[00:45.32] You just don't seem to see how returning to them is so far beneath you.
[00:53.21] But then how come my corpse -- it rises up?
[01:01.37] And it is my soul that has sunk?
[01:08.78] Hear!
[01:10.76] That sound rings out across the land, over the roaring waves, through every grain of sand.
[01:20.94] Is it of loss and pain or made to seduce me?
[01:26.78] Listen!
[01:28.91] The oohs and aahs of funeral spectators death admirators as they bathe in ritual memories and fake tears.
[01:39.30] Life's underrated.
[01:41.05] Jaded and hatred isolate you so abandon your fears.
[01:47.85]
[01:48.08] As they spread my ashes like a bouquet of seeds.
[01:51.51] Far up, far out... to show you what I'm made of.
[01:57.44] Kill the parasite in every co-dependent brain fallen slave to the pull of the waves.
[02:08.56] The pull of the waves; the natural decay of all that is made is how redemption is paid.
[02:22.33] Say Dickinson, who do you blame for your romantic death wish?
[02:48.50] And does it remain true that angry winds feel like a lover's breath?
[02:55.35] That's why you grip so hard.
[02:59.08] No!
[02:59.53] It's simply condition keeping me locked in!
[03:03.56] I could escape if I knew how to swim!
[03:07.35] Look... feel... you're aided.
[03:09.22] Wind, sun and strangers have come to guide you so the choice is clear.
[03:18.16] As they spread my ashes like a bouquet of seeds.
[03:19.72] Far up, far out... to show you what I'm made of.
[03:24.41] Kill the parasite in every co-dependent brain fallen slave to the pull of the waves
[03:33.22]
[03:49.82] Playfully badgering, casually capturing.
[03:58.16] To escape the surface chaos is to sink -- not to swim.
[04:07.86]
[04:09.25] You say to release the stranglehold keeping me safely beneath.
[04:17.51] But as the sea foam rises up, tickles my lips and sinks insides, doesn't the choice of future paths become a matter of pride?
[04:35.88] When I've struggled so hard to excel, why is it so unappealing to survive.
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