Cognitive dissonance infiltrates The servants of basest desires This chaos in a vacant black hole Quicksand thoughts distraught in a cruel world Appealing to emotional cores A festering wound on ego's sores Vows of silent existential screams Perspective shifts, withstanding the winds Where is the promised time? Eons spent walking blind The desert shores beckon Obscuring intention Riding the sands of time As dunes form and wither We're born covered in slime Cast in air to slither Walls between emotions and logic Bones turn dust, endless waltzing chronic Mindful, inspecting the Taoist balance To honor memories, not seance To wander through life blindly seeking Solace from the mind to cease weeping Denies the growth of newfound reason To change the tide and shift the seasons Forever onwards Remorse purveyors Melting in the acid clay Nature conditioned An endless prison Instincts conquering our ways An endless spiral Torrential failure To keep the cycle at bay Destruction returns Creation anew The more I change I stay the same Asymmetry is key to it all... The shifts and turns in organic development To push towards the unknown and test limits Pushing onwards towards surreal endeavors Oppression enlightens to the nature of all Bound to physical laws that ask not for applause To surrender to chaos is to let it fester within To wield it through passion, surpass private dens Enlightenment and entropy A violent chemical shift Vortex of self immersion Uneven execution I'm choking on my bile help! (black metal vocals courtesy of Donald Duck)