[Verse 1: Zach Quinn]

From the height of this peak

This crooked path that I've toiled along

Betrays itself to me unswerving

Through this wasted land

Stifle terror I'm cradling in

Benign reverence of a nightmare

[Spoken: Zach Quinn]

Don't pull me out

The climax comes

The leaves of this clover ablaze, I must burn!

[Verse 2: Zach Quinn]

Fluid in tongues through accelerant lips

Forged my own signature on my own permission slip

I grappled angry

Would not let go

Cathartic subjugation

I have come to know

Dangling like a thread

[Verse 3: Zach Quinn]

Over the heads of the children of woe

The credits scroll up and away left with nowhere to go

But departures are arrivals in a certain sense

And the rations I've been given have been marked as evidence

Of willingness yet to survive

[Bridge: Zach Quinn]

I want to want to die

I want to want to die

I want to want to die

I want to want to die

But I don't!

[Verse 4: Zach Quinn]

From a mind under mire

The sputtered patterns of endless thought

Will strike the artist as self-serving

As ugly as it appears

The implications hyperbole

Familiarity unnerving

Powerless to change what I can't see

[Outro: Zach Quinn]

To thumb through a manual inherently losing my place

A myriad of options

Incisions to make

Give me a moment