Young and in the way

[Instrumental]

times are cold these days when you look at man & see him on his knees in debt to ghosts i look at myself & plunge i've never felt chills like these yet i am here drenched in absence...

from the highest branch you have been detached a gathering of the weak wilted & grey to crumble & decay herd of the unwashed the trampled confined & broken on this cold earth...

why would I spend all my fucking life locked to the things that won't show me no time / she spends her days throwing rocks to pass the day to me / these awful things / the devil's deeds / you can try...

in my head I'm dreaming of a different land that would fit you more than the one we roam / this goddamn town where the shadows are demons / more than the life we know / dead end town just picking up...

forever yearning for what is not all obsessive dreams live & die inside i let them phase me & drive me away I'm drowning with the weight of fear you've dragged me here to; breath tread...

behind my eyes desperate clouds surround the sun all has vanished & i am left tense & empty face down in my palms again vengeful winds whisper in my ears; embrace me seize the light...

nested at the peak of the coldest mountain i stare down to the valley because home isn't home i'll take the long way down the mountain to see & feel it all i'll take the long way down the...

I am alone for once dusk to dawn / finally I'm free / I am alone by choice / I am alone not nailed to a cross / 'cause when the day breaks they care not what knife is stained / and it rained / I am...