Scale the walls of hopelessness
Lungs breath blackened tar
Abusive instinct takes control

No more hope left under darkened star

Staring down a bottomless pit


No escape, no way out
The only way through is down

Cannot speak, cannot move
Inarticulate, we drown
Failure's asexual breed

Life of swine become disease
Better and twisted inside
Worship my god of fear


Face the facts, everything dies in the end


Always brave on the outside
Smiling in the face of despair
Blood courses through constricted veins

Silent screams, gasping for air

Burning blade enters prepared skin

Crimson life flows from within
Welcoming releasing blood
Rivers deep to the desperate sea

Flow...

Yet choices made are not reversed

Persistence in the face of nothingness
Courage to endure despair
Survive, revenge, redress

Floods of blood wash nothing clean
Begin within on the path to redeem
Locking back at a beleaguered past

Something inside changed

So much time ahead

So much that can be done
Speaking words in unknown tongues
Presaging Armageddon's son


Pressure building up inside
Something has no give

Vanquish all fear, nowhere to hide
Become the master, choose to live


I choose to damn well live!

Never more to be trodden down

Before no one to kneel

Heart, once frozen, trapped in ice

Now boiling molten steel!

Highest self to vindicate

All cause of doubt to eradicate
Seize control, force mental state
Seconds counting down to detonate


Return to those who would oppress
The way of advance lies through regress

Old enemies made to feel violent caress
Pay it all back with interest


At last, it seems, a return to peace
Destructive urges finally cease
There's still anger, but now it's part of me

I'll never die so easily!