Exit Signs

(album: Sanctum - 2022)

Desolate we wander slowly
Weighted shackles digging deep
In misery we bloom or wither
Inside us our demon's creep
Blinded by our inner thoughts
Pain and pleasure crossing lines
Driven by what's in our hearts
We seem to miss all the signs

Crying out we beg for an escape
I can't help but tell myself that it's too late
My eyes are blind to the signs

Deep within the mind
It's like we've lost all sense of time
Buried beneath
The mind unravels and unwinds

Racing, my heart rate heightened
I start to panic now
I can't recall when this had happened or the spiral down
Falling faster into this hell
I wonder if I did this
Or if this path was already set in stone?

The fear of being free is blinding
Hope entwined in misery
There seems to be no end
Yet on the escape I long for I dig myself deeper

Spiral into this sickness
Let it dance and like a dream
Buried beneath the weight
Your mind is now unraveling
Writhing in agony
I seem to miss all the signs
Blinded I cannot see that I could leave at anytime

This will be the grave in which you find yourself
And I will be the one to pull you down
Your life of ignorance and arrogance will catch up to you
If you can live life blind, then you must not cry
Let it devour you

I can't survive like this
Get me out
Just let me be free

Racing, my heart rate heightened
I start to panic now
I can't recall when this had happened or the spiral down
Falling faster into this hell
I wonder if I did this
Or if this path was already set in stone?

The fear of being free is blinding
Hope entwined in misery
There seems to be no end
Yet on the escape I long for I dig myself deeper

Slipping away like the sand between my fingertips
The exit's all pass
Like an endless nightmare
I'm bound for oblivion

Desolate we wander slowly
Weighted shackles digging deep
In misery we bloom or wither
Inside us our demon's creep
Blinded by our inner thoughts
Pain and pleasure crossing lines
Driven by what's in our hearts
We seem to miss all the signs