What's Below - Mt. Eden

Imposter Where are the seams in your crooked mask? Duplicate Why do you drape yourself in familiar skin? Automaton You merely imitate who I once loved You cannot be You cannot be You cannot be The echo maker took you from me Through eventide I wander blind Twilight eyes, seeking sight Amber designs Melt raptured skies Obscured lies, your glowing mind Nature has a cunning way To find our weakest spots Oh Delphic replica You shift me back to Ithaka Where we once fell in endless blue A hue no longer found in you In tongues, you emit memory In tongues, you emulate But your once earthly kiss, now alien Persuades me that you imitate You imitate You imitate I disassociate Beneath a golden temple of delusion I drain the honey Each Drip Falling from the tree of sight Each Drip A sun in my eyes And In That final drip I recognise you Through eventide (through eventide) I wander blind (I wander blind) Twilight eyes, seeking sight Amber designs (amber designs) Melt raptured skies Obscured lies, my glowing mind The fruit of my tree are sick and few Infection seething through and through I dance deluded in a chemical downpour Hoping that i'll see you once more To feel that vibrant love in agape Devoid of all chicanery To see the mask removed To see the colours of truth Melt, melt the amber To see the crystal blue Melt the amber To see the crystal blue Melt Melt the amber

Lucid, at the edge of the sky The blood moon calls to me As the sun burns out its light Numina: hold my hands, whilst I dance with entropy I can't bear to feel your sultry grip slip away from me Please don't let go, don't let me fall Into the darkness Into the angst and woe The angst and woe Into the angst and woe "Breathe," she says "Breath in the night..." The cold air will open your eyes To the other side, the other side of the divine "Bliss will not escort you through this forlorn abyss But wisdom and perception will greet you at the rift" "Heed these words, for once you flourish they will not last There's only so much sand in an hourglass" "Once you make the fall, all light will disappear This darkness will entomb you You'll find love with achlyss" This darkness will entomb you You'll find love Spiraling Endlessly Is this what it takes for ourselves to be free? If I give in to everything Will I be one with the mantra within? To kiss the lips of melancholy To hold hands with the mist of grief The echoes of the ancient ones, bid me to dance with death Everything, everything I loved was merely the shadow of youth My soul's voice calls out to Shiva Present to me your eternal mantra

It's been a few years since you've been gone There's been a few tears But that was years and years ago Yeah, I grew up to be exactly what you wanted Yeah, I been living out the dream that you dreamt up It's been a few years with more to come It's been a few years since I've felt sure of what I want And I woke up today and found that you were waiting here for me And I thought, woah, old friend, it's bittersweet Woah, but how could you do this to me? How could you do this to me, yeah 'Cause you are not who you think you are There's no green on these brown eyes But they can be green if they really want And I can bend your words So they say exactly what hurts the most But silence is better than fake laughs or faking we're always up Loose grip The world bends around you And living through cracked screens We fold down to what we want Out of love We talk through lines, we're made of smoke And just in time, we drift away Diffusing light Confusing times Growing up, or cascading down Cascading down I'm hurting now But change comes slow If you hate what's in your head The fuck would you speak your mind? In search of lost time Just 21 so I'm young and I'm stupid Only 16, yeah, I think you should've known I think you fucked me up I think I think you fucked me up And I've got nothing to say to you It's been a few years and I've moved on Couldn't make it disappear Oh, I tried so hard to be strong But I grew up today and faced that I'm not just lonely Don't feel much better, but I guess that it's a start

I wanna be your secret Or at least, its keeper I wanna be your pearl Or at least, its shell I wanna be the army Or at least, its Trojan horse I wanna be the well Or at least, be the source I wanna know my God At least, enough to fear Her If I can't be the song At least have mercy, let me hear Her I wanna be your muse Or at least, the mistress I wanna be your Bible Or at least, its witness I wanna know my God At least, enough to fear Her If I can't be the song At least have mercy, let me hear Her I wanna know my God At least, enough to fear Her If I can't be the song At least have mercy, let me hear Her If I can't be the song At least have mercy, let me hear Her