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Escher Room

Whilst I was dreaming, streaming up and down my arms

The confining, winding vine

I became another stone in the great wall

Which lines this labyrinthine

 

One door leading to another, my steps echo upon the stair

If I don’t believe it, I can’t perceive it

That’s the advice you always gave me

But I was too stubborn to ever receive it

 

There was some confusion over the illusion

And now the fusion has occurred

Don’t bother trying to dig me out of the hole I’ve made

I’d rather my screams never be heard

 

A silent midnight hides my vengeance

In the comfortable depths of my abyss

Please tell me you don’t understand

So I can explain the meaning of all of this

 

Rapid eye movement, shutting me down

Fathoming the phantoms eating my soul

Don’t come any closer, or you’ll be a monster like me

An empty shell, delusion filling the hole

 

Your chimerical notions of bravery sustain me

Starlight keeping time with my every heart beat

You are the only dream, the only perfection

All else in my eyes has become obsolete

 

The vines entwine our hands

The maze once endless is now clear

Why do you save me every time, even if I don’t want saving

Why do you destroy all that I fear

 

Eye lids pried open and even in reality it’s always you

The darkness calling me, and I remain thinking

I wish to be among the stone, wrapped in vine alone

Tricked by the eyes, in the abyss I am sinking…sinking..

 

Whilst I was dreaming, streaming up and down my arms

The needing, bleeding vine

I became another victim of love

I became yours and you became mine.

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Mar 14, 2010
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