Ravenblack

You wake up to the screaming darkness

You brave the murk that moves

Like a bat in the night or an afflatus divine?

You're one of those terminal illusions

They're looking through you

They don't care what's inside

If you laugh while you die

You're spinning your cocoon

Now is it really you?

Or is it the expectation that surrounds you?

Choking!

Lonely and invisible we run

Fade away

Walls they cave in on you

I'm the ground that's gonna open

Light of day

Drove you out to the gloom

I'm the ravenblack that's there for you

Determination called your name

You feel like a template

Screened onto a wall of concrete

By a social elite

You dwell on thoughts of being elsewhere

Receive the blessings of those roads in the night

There's no place in the light

For those castles in the sky

You sit and wonder why

The ashen hand of reason wraps

Its cloak around your dream

Admonitory fingers

You fade away

Walls they cave in on you

I'm the ground that's gonna open

Light of day

Drove you out to the gloom

I'm the ravenblack that's there for you

They say you've got to want it

On the treadmill

You gotta want it badly

You're predestined to be what their eyes wanna see

A terminated fire

Fade away

Walls they cave in on you

I'm the ground that's gonna open

Light of day

Drove you out to the gloom

I'm the ravenblack that's there for you