Nigredo - Propagandhi

Our lives lead to nowhere, we’re counting time

Then grasping for each other, as we’re crushed beneath the tide

No rising from the ashes, your final flight

Was a plunge into Nigredo’s endless night

Suffocate

The squeezing hands of fate

Our lives can’t be replaced

Searching for the reasons we were thrown into the world

Always waiting, but out of time

I wish that you believed that, just as you hit the brink

Of total despair, you’d find your way

Drifting out of phase

The squeezing hands of fate

I know you think you’ve found some certainty

But you know we always learn the hard way

If you get lucky and you’re last to leave

You’ll watch the burning out of everything

Some stories end and nothing more

A quiet aching we endure

We’re all just faces and nothing more

So take the ashes, I’m headed out

Have you ever seen someone wasting away?

First by choice, then after it’s too late

They decide that they want to come back to life

But they’re drowning in a sea so endless

You see them come up for air then go under forever

The squeezing hands of fate

Our lives can’t be replaced