Lyrics:

Circles carved in shadowed ground
Every step, I’m still bound
Faces change, but the eyes remain
A cycle written in endless pain

I open doors, I let them in
The smile, the touch, the fragile skin
But every warmth becomes a chain
A lesson I forget again

I open doors, I let them in
The smile, the touch, the fragile skin
But every warmth becomes a chain
A lesson I forget again

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

A thousand hands, the same embrace
The mask is different, but not the face
The promise spoken fades to dust
The wheel demands, the wheel I trust

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

Spiraling upward, falling low
I reap the seeds I didn’t sow
Each soul I meet, the thread entwines
Binding my heart in endless lines

Round and round, the wheel still turns
Ash to ash, and fire burns
Karmic ties I cannot sever
Toxic bonds, repeating forever

The wheel turns on, it always will
And I remain, broken still

The Wheel that Breaks Me

Atlas I.