The Last Word

Heal me with a wounded heart
Animate my failed resolve
Pull these wires from my skin
They'll tear the flesh, but I'll be whole within

And begin to live
Like a human being

'Cause I've lost control and I'm growing tired
Can't trust myself 'cause I'm a liar
I'm losing hope and I need to know
What is the key to being whole?

Now I've a noose for every limb
They suffocate rebellion
So rend the sinew from the bone
Displace the ones I've let upon your throne

For who you serve
Comes back in turn

I've lost control and I'm growing tired
Can't trust myself 'cause I'm a liar
I'm losing hope and I need to know
What is the key to being whole?

Please realign all my desires
'Cause I've lost control and I'm growing tired
Can't trust myself 'cause I'm a liar
I'm losing hope and I need to know
What is the key to being whole?

Fracture

A vagrant with a feckless heart
Preparing to depart again
Eyes are strained upon the dark
Ever searching out the stars

This darkling world
A wilderness
And we are doomed
To wander it

Stumbling listless, roaming blind
By a legend ill-defined
The firmament that separates
Is firmer than his trust so desolate

This darkling world
A wilderness
And we are doomed
To wander it

Wander

Bind them up, these broken hands
Idle to the point of death
Fingers limp as splintered spears
Holding loose what should be dear

Tear them out, these vacant eyes
Perceiving only starless skies
Blind unto the waking world
Best not to see until they're cured

Until They're Cured

Every ending's the beginning
Of the same old ending
And I'm running, no displacement
Only distance, my existence
Such persistence
In letting you down
Again
Perhaps it's time
But you won't let me go

Graduation

Fourteen eyes upon me
Seven heads surround me
As them, I am nothing
My head they are crushing

Seven times assailed
Fourteen years I've failed
They say I am nothing
My head they are crushing

I'm surrounded, these thoughts an ocean
Waves are crashing in constant motion
I am drowning, I am devoured
Can you hear me? What is the hour? 

Can you calm my cerebral chaos?
Can you calm my cerebral chaos?
Can you calm?
Can you calm?

Cerebral Chaos

Solar eclipse, apocalypse
It's dark beneath the sun
Solar eclipse, nightfall affixed
Before the earth has spun
Before the day is done
Before the night's begun

Solar eclipse, the stars aren't fixed
Have they fallen to the ground?
Solar eclipse, great dark abyss
In the sky they can't be found
In the sky no longer housed
The sky has been uncrowned

But you don't own me
And I don't owe you
So why am I staying?
Why am I in the dark?

Solar eclipse, this orbit skips
A hundred thousand days
Solar eclipse, I do predict
Tomorrow as the same
Tomorrow once again
Tomorrow darkness reigns

Solar eclipse, nocturnal fix
Addicted to this shade
Solar eclipse, I am transfixed
It makes me feel afraid
It makes me feel detained
It makes me want to break away

But you don't own me
And I don't owe you
So why am I staying?
Why am I in the dark?

Solar Eclipse

When death's penumbra swallows up
Every living light
It's fleshless fingers groping out
Beyond the bounds of night
I strain to hear on sighing winds
Of hope beyond my sight
But all is still and silent 
Save the carrion fowls' flight
These heralds of Hades bring his boast
The taunt of death they sing
"Can you not see my victory?
Do you not feel my sting?" 

Death is not the last word
Death is not the last word

The Last Word

Jacob DeBoer