Verse
Guileless youth
Inclined to cynicism
Certainty is old Hat

Is there a truth
To symbolism, virtue,
And all that

How do we end up with this
The psyche’s become the nemesis

Chorus
Archonic Paragon
Depraved by phantoms that divide us

Verse
If there is truth that’s absolute
Reality we can’t dispute
If it is non-contingent
How will we come to know it?

And do we end up with this
Apotheosis Paralysis

Chorus
Archonic Paragon
Depraved by phantoms that divide us

Bridge
Ambivalent and callow
Feeling completely shallow
Resigned to Nihilism
Or a deluded Romanticism

Chorus
Archonic paragon
Depraved by phantoms that divide us

Archonic Paragon

This song is really about how you can get so caught up focusing on your flaws that you become consumed by them. It's easy to forget that often, the void we stare into is merely a reflection of those parts of ourselves we'd rather not admit exist.

Life And Mind

Andrei Rublev

Danny Island

Obscurant Grammar

Verse

Decaying Images upon a screen
Inside of Memories of reveries
And musings or ideas sung into being

Depictions, signifiers of the thing
Always abstractions of the symbols
Or the attributes we’re able to perceive

Pre-Chorus

It’s not our eyes that fool us
Our grammar seems to rule us
A tool to impose order
Become disordered

Chorus

The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself
 
Pre-Chorus

No physical resemblance
Or causal link suggestions
Symbols are arbitrary
Often contrary

Outro

The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign can’t be the thing itself, oh I know

The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know

The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign can’t be the thing itself, oh I know

The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know
The sign isn’t the thing itself, oh I know

Locket Power