Adder’s Bite

By Avandra

On Descender

Released on April 26, 2019

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Time crawls

By, unseen before our eyes

Inside we draw

Out the sins of empty lives

Of everything we fail to see

Of everything we fail to be

It's fools who draw

Water from a poisoned well

Who lack the blood

To burn throughout their empty shells

Of everything they fail to see

Of everything they fail to be

And at a moment's chance

They synchronize their void-like glance

Into the deepness of this well they'rе still to understand

And as the rabble drinks

Wе look for life independently

The pathos of our distance guides our steps so patiently

All these rivers that run deep

Are streams that pull us to our knees

In poisoned waters we can't see

An exit flowing to the sea

Now!

Speak your truth, be free!

Like the Adder's poisonous spree

Stop writhing awkwardly

Hiding in the trees

(Do not) listen to the words

A language so absurd

That lingers from the tongues

Of unenlightened curs

All these rivers that run deep

Are streams that pull us to our knees

In poisoned waters we can't see

An exit flowing to the sea

Do they see the signs

That constantly make their marks

In between our eyes?

All these silent cries

That never know the reasons why

They compromise

Now their moment's left astray

And their spirits castaway

The constant movements in their minds

Towards the knowledge that betrays

(That)

We're language falsified

A decadence inside

A nihilistic lie

A monumental blight

(With eyes) and yet so blind

No values redefined

A passivity of life

Forever satisfied

Their virtue's in silence

Fear: all coward's guidance

The drive that makes them slaves

The reasons they're astray

(With snake) eyes, we see the mold

Reality unfolds

In truths so manifold

Perceptions hereto untold

(In per)-spectivism's light

New views from on high

We take on our new roles

To trans-valuate our lives

No more moments left astray

Nor their spirits castaway

The constant movements in their minds

With new knowledge that designs

They now see the signs

That constantly make their marks

In between our eyes

All these silent cries

That finally know the reasons why

They compromised

Break free from this trial

That convinces you to swallow

All potential found inside

Don't let it run its course within your veins

And extirpate it with this newfound knowledge

Change...

All these rivers that run deep

Beneath the well whose waters we can finally calmly drink

Are streams that carried off those false imaginations

The twilight of all idols and false supplications