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All For Naught

from Hikikomori by IDES

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Why do we grovel - who says we’re lost - there’s no tomorrow - it’s all for naught

Left my body on the street
With my heart laid flat
On the sidewalk near the uncut grass
While my head now dormant
Still turning like a dancer in the depths of a secondhand loveseat
I saw planes crashing down
In a brilliant display of defiance
With a stark correspondence of orange and red--
Now the cold earth’s shaking with a hapless sigh enough’s enough
No one’s home
Left your remains in the sun while hearing cries of those you love
They want loss?
Well show them loss
Say goodbye to any good that’s come from this depressing lot

I came to on my knees
With my eyes nailed firmly to the husk of these hallowed out bones
Shattered beams bared teeth now swollen from decades of blood and mold
I cried out, but the sound dissolved with the weight
Of my jaw crushing down on my lungs
They found me huddled in a fugue state
Laughing “All you ever need is fucking love”
Love is all
Get me off this crazy thing before I peck out my own heart
Is death the end of our conquest
Or is it simply saying sorry for years and years of waste
simply saying sorry for years and years of waste - OH
“Someone left the cake out in the rain”
No horse, no king
I’m never coming back from this again

C’est la vie, so it goes
C’est la vie, or so it goes
Platitudes of wisdom won’t prepare you for the great unknown

You only like me with my arms bent back
Prostrate against the ground bootheels digging in my neck
The neck contorts, the smile screams
In the mirror, in the mirror, in the mirror
looking back at me

I couldn’t recognize the filthy remains of myself:
A horrible stranger
My eyes became the yellow of yesterday those pitiful reflectors
With a crooked fracture of a grin that said "I am the bed and I am the match and I am the flame and I am the embers"
So when you finally see
The scorched earth for the trees
Will it be all for naught?

In the end we'll all grovel
If we're all lost it's all for naught
If there's no tomorrow
Then why do we grovel?

It's all for naught, so let it flood

Let the light in
Let it flood
Let the light in
We'll let the light flood in

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from Hikikomori, released March 15, 2020

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