Temet nosce - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

While the whole world was yelling about its ugliness

I didn't believe it, remembering only innocence

My positivity has carried me through the last few years

But dark events disrupted my inner balance

Am I to blame for all this shit? Almost, I guess

"Being a Good Person" — well, that's a failed quest

I want to be the way I used to be, not less

I'm not chasing after being the best

What's up, Ouroboros?

Are you hungry today?

Why don't you visit me at night?

I'll be waiting you during thе day

I ate my dinner with Morton's fork

It stank of rot, like a dеad piece of pork

An ascetic lifestyle I've forced myself into

I've tried to find in self-flagellation a little clue

To protect from myself, the person I once was

Who held onto certain principles and views

I thought without looking and went with the flow

All that's left of me is a fading shadow

At the port of life, I boarded Theseus's ship

Now I'm not in the river - now I'm in deep shit

What's up, Ouroboros?

Are you hungry today?

Why don't you visit me at night?

I'll be waiting you during the day

I ate my dinner with Morton's fork

It stank of rot, like a dead piece of pork

It all started as an experiment and finished as a mess

Instead of personal growth, this was reverse progress

And there are a lot of things I haven't mentioned

And a lot of lines of text that I scrapped

All I know is that the end of this story is coming

I just want to believe that it wasn't all for nothing

I heard somewhere that "No pain no gain"

In this weirdo maelstrom, I will find myself again