navigating chaos

flipping scripts on fools
shining on basking demons
shrunken heads reveal their charms
swollen under tides of poison
slipping under swelling skies
let rain wash me away

your smile brings a new angle
to a life already drowned in red
an arrow grown into my ankle
sung from an angel's weapon
a thorn grew out of your frown
plucked like white roses

i remember your touch 
how it weakened me then
i can't recall your love
and how it beckoned me then
seems it's always been lost
seems it was never there

a letter from a priestess
echoes in these crumbling halls
her claws no longer dig
deep into my rotting flesh
the scabs are gone and what remains
is a whisper of what could have been

a cry from the jungle
catches my attention in its net
i tumble from high above
back into a grounded dream
standing brings new changes
far removed from a ravens eye

how I long for your touch
how it could lift me up
can't go without your love
oh how it beckons me
seems I've never been found
seems I was never lost


angel's weapon

i'm on a wave
from crest to trough
can't it keep going?
i haven't had enough

forbidden exit
locked away inside
no longer cold
where I reside

your eyes are fiction
dancing across my skies
blocking my vision
filled up on lies

left to dry off
fell into place
locked outside my minds
expired face

never on a mission
until fate arrived
bloated and vile
hidden beauty cried

your eyes are fiction
dancing across my blindness
locking my decision
filled up on kindness

feels I'm always whole
without the emptiness
wish I could call out
to your nothingness

rising like dust
out shaking curtains
cobwebs piled up
never a burden

your eyes are fiction
dancing across my blind skies
stocking my incisions
stitching my lost mind

stretch my blind eyes wide
to fetch me my kind
bending my fragile ego 
to mend my lonely hello

your eyes are fiction
dancing across my skies
blocking my vision
filled up on nothing at all

your eyes are fiction

locked out all these dreams
wish you could see with my eyes
realise your place in this
feel the weight of your mind

bent out of shape but never broken
fixing your soul was never the issue
licking your wounds until
the pus pours into the tissue

before you forget
don't try to remember
all that you've been
just come out and play
but don't forget
everything burns you
if you stay too dry inside
let the flames lick outside

i suppose you've grown to like the taste
wish you'd grow outside your mould
you're on the edge of yourself again
twisting the knife into your guts

cast out your shame
embrace the pain
let vulnerablility
shape your ability

before you forget

vulnerable abilities

sating all, for rulers breathe
into lives becoming me
seek the truth within the stone
wield within for all behold

smiling demons lead the way
help them keep the tide at bay 
seems they've forgotten their way
never washing you astray

lightning in a bottle 
multitude of new cadence
don't let these melodies hold you back
let old memories bring you back

close the window on all the lies
end the story for all of time
piece by piece I'll mend the seams
until its what it never seemed

itching hands meet their fate
never have they stood at the gates
opened up before my eyes
into lives of broken prizes

never seeing what they're owed
never doing as they're told
unbecome to seek the end
forevermore into my depths

always seek within my palms
something which will never part
always seek within my mind
things for you in paradise
things for you you'll never find

privacy in the public eye
never in the furthest cry
glimpse into my minds blindness
revealing shadows madness
painful to reach these conclusions
burns no longer within their illusions

illusions

can't you see can't make up my mind
felt the rush of life coming back
whispered silhouettes try to guide
bring me closer to my collapse

synthesised minds eye erodes your chain
sinking sedative hollows you
locked your flame away in a cage
casting shadows I thought you knew

please don't take your time
i'm slipping away
i don't mind
staying this way
don't take your time
i'm slipping away
i don't mind

synthesised minds eye erodes your chain
sinking sedative hollows you
locked your flame away in a cage
casting shadows I thought you knew

please don't take your time
i'm slipping away
i don't mind
staying this way
don't take your time
i'm slipping away
i don't mind

silhouettes

death's hands

sick of these suffocating thoughts running through my mind
yet i still seem to be thinking of you half the time
shell of myself wanna break out and to make you mine
im done trying im done fighting but im still alive

why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?
why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?
why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?
why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?


doubts a thief sneaking inside to rob me of my shine
stumbling with my empty head i still don't feel alright
feelings out of reach switched off until i see your light
you cant save me from myself but i wish you'd try

why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?
why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?
why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?
why cant she see
why cant she see
why cant she see me?

navigating chaos

SMILING DAEMONS