I have a silhouette raging through my mind. Monuments of deceit for the passersby. A new ruin accented by the halogen lights.
Nothing left to go home to, just these manufactured shells. No trace of remembrance, just some infrastructural hells.
Washed away with the valley’s incarnate as the factories topple over me. Entombed by the silence of a highway’s midnight drone. Carrying away the breathing as another casket’s in waiting.
But I’ll stay yours for as long as you’ll keep me. I don’t know why I’m faithful to the disease that kills me.
Embrace the fall that awaits us all.
credits
from Self Titled,
released October 27, 2015
Music: New Ruin, Lyrics: K. Aguilar
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