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 ---Now and Then---
 
Hiding silent in a corner,
Charting every step you take.
Water flooding goes asunder,
Making death a pretty face.
 
My eyes fly open bitterly,
Monotony sets its fading tone.
Another conscious fleeting moment
Escapes through many tired groans.
 
The tide will always come.
 
The merciless rage of the waters
Crashing upon the border between now and then.
Power is shifting too often
Too often comes the tide.
 
The tide will always come.
 
Holding only less construction
Used to be a different task.
The sun is hiding in the shadows
Of monolith controlling lapse.
 
Blame me for the death that I've made.
Why can't you control yourself?
Intangible fatalities are
Subject to the ocean's stealth.
 
The merciless rage of the waters
Crashing upon the border between now and then.
Power is shifting too often.
Too often comes the tide.
 
Gasp for breath and choke on water,
Rise above the moon's control.
Stay awake for just a moment.
Die until you find the cold.

The tide will always
 
Seem to find another reason,
Seem to find another way.
Hold another useless martyr.
Watch them die as if to say
 
The tide will always come.
 
The merciless rage of the waters
Crashing upon the border between now and then.
Power is shifting too often.
Too often comes the tide.
 
The tide will always come (x whatever)
 
 
---Captivity---
 
Make my way to another closed door.
Whispers hiding, asking questions.
A straining smile plays my face too well.
My freedom is a prison cell.
 
 
---Complete With Painful Notions---
 
Starving, hiding
Just close to pouncing
Devouring
Complete a frightening
Nightmare is choking
Hanging it out there
The world can see
The weakness deafening.
 
Projected another screen
A scream of death defying
One more fighting chance
To just be me.
 
Spreading, breeding
Keeping another painful eve
Just one more day
Is left, and now
I'm still not ready to go
So
I'll fight but only to know.
 
There are no more debts to pay
I've just got one more thing to say
I'm ready to go...
I'm ready to go.
 
It pains me to say
I just get in the way
Sympathy shining
Iridescently hiding
A darkness is spreading
Nothing left but the pain.
 
 
---Falling Away---
 
(Under some serious revision.)

---Cancer---
 
Express yet another proportion
Control gripping in coldhearted vain
Prepare for the last whim's contortion
Of tomorrow's expression that's holding the pain
 

Leave me a fair warning
Tell me where to turn and weep
Wallow in the loving wonder
Tear away before another
Cold, hard, senseless denial
Explodes its timeless tomorrow


Juxtapose summer and winter
Just trust me


Holding up and spitting out
The nome of someone's borrowed blood
Your head rests on a neck of armor
Aggrandize your fatal thought control
 

Leave me just a little glory
Tell me when your thoughts are done
Thrive within your selfless wonder
Tear away before some other
Cold, festering, senseless distractions
Regress to helpless infections
 

Juxtapose summer and winter
Just trust me

---Cancer (Reprise)---

Just trust me to say the right thing,
No one will realize until it's too late
Just trust me to go beyond human
And undo the bonds that will hold me in place,
 
Replace the dysfunctional allies with actors,
Cover up tracks that were already made.
Let's put things into perspective-
Who needs the food when it's on a gold plate?
 
See me take out another
Bold check to tie a knot.
Money is the root of evil
Cash is the inconceivable
Answer to all of life's problems,
Who cares what you lose while you solve them?

-Ethan