Dark Martyr - In the Shadow of What Once Was

In the Shadow of What Once Was
I know myself
And selves
Their presence beneath
As slumber creeps
The conscience delves

A walk in the sky
Some time in the ground
Battles fought, won and lost
The meta-state rebounds

Create a thirst within
Share our void with the fools
Still bound by their rules
And bones, breath and skin

For what we used to be
Now a pale, mortal shell

And now bloody the plain
The axioms wash
Reflective pause in the still
Before the time of Pain

A wounded rage ferment
The sanguinous wash
My soul's blood seeps
To the earth
A sacrament

For what we used to be
Now a pale, mortal shell
This fleshy hell
Only through death and sleep
Can we ever be free