Children running Racing seraphim Moving forward Faster, grey and thin Losing perception Ignorant and hostile Fallacies multiplying Insolence and trojan smiles Draining slowly Cold and seething Step back and force it down To keep me dreaming Falling slowly Feeling nothing I cut myself a mouth To keep me breathing Decimate Fighting a winning battle, losing a war Desolate No hope before us for a kinder world Fighting a winning battle Losing a war No hope before us for a kinder world But what a beautiful way to burn What a beautiful way to burn the memories of the past Take their place amongst the hopeless As you tighten your grip Just to stay in control And your heart skips a beat As the world you know collapses As you tie off your veins Just to steady the flow Students of ignorance Eating holes in our defense Tying tighter tourniquets Praise the god asphyxiant Hellion a grace that tears a void Movement our eyes avoid The strain, Our bridges collapsing And through the throat of drought I'll show you where we drowned Away, A fever relapsing