The Lotus Eater

[Verse 1]

Liquid is in your throat

For hopeless delight

After all you fell in love with death

Life has aborted all you've had and all you became

The night is calling, you pray forth

A barren waste is your land

Crops, they were sown to die

This skin is a mirror, the eyes hollow with ignorance

Health runs from your lips

Sucked in and safe from the world of sleep

All years caring for a liar

The barren drift road is winding higher

You're a moth too close to the fire

[Instrumental Break]

[Interlude]

You are stuck in a route of confusion

Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all

[Verse 2]

Fleeing your sorrows

Pushing your spirit away

Sick of the weakness of the psyche

A whisper from the heart of evil luring them all into despair

Resenting the goods of a saviour

And cries out

For the restless will also die

A selection culled from the damned

Drawing a lifeline of one

A friend died in your room and sought the birth of a follower

O brother, you are a killer and you target yourself

I wish you’d never come back

For us to see the beckoning end

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

And the pride of a mother

Drawn close in a mother's son

And the love from a father

Was used by a father's son

And the pride of a mother

Drawn close in a mother's son

And the love from a father

Was used by a father's son

[Outro]

Overheard us talking

In a smoke of lost hope

The language of a parting

So clear and so true

Overheard us talking