Memento Mori - The Agonist

Can’t you see how far I’ve bent

Fuel abuse at my expense

The limbs that crawl up silken threads

And swift entomb the not quite dead

That sickening numbness hindsight hides

Like spiders creeps out from inside

Remember

Simply don’t pretend

Both good and bad will come to end

How love’s blindfold wears so thin

The world’s too strange when seen without

The arrow’s head plunged so far in

My body taught me just how to live on without

You tore away a part of my body

So virgin pure

You fed off blood from my soul

No longer will your silhouette haunt me

Reject obsession

Let it burn in the cold

Writhing

Wriggling free

From all the superficial constraints

But that sickening numbness hindsight hides

Like spiders creeps out from inside

How love’s blindfold wears so thin

The world’s too strange when seen without

The arrow’s head plunged so far in

My body taught me just how to live on without

Your fingers burn their prints on my skin

But greedy hands can’t grope their way into my mind

No more will your venom reach my awe-glazed eyes

Permanent scars

Though my last hope was strangled

Although you’ve burned me

That corpse constantly shadowing my every move

With each step I take pavement grinds my flesh away

The precious static rest beneath my slumber holds me up

Though persuasion pulls me down