Picture being locked in a position
Your hands in chains, envision the words and just listen
There's no escape, it's just a state
There's no way to make an incision
The strangling hands of fate will mangle
You better go make a decision
There's no time to be shedding them tears
You actually gotta be making a difference
To top it off, you're fretting daily
You're sweating bullets and your color is fading
You're caught in thought. You try to cough
But that's no what's causing your throat to be aching
You're waking up every night in a cold sweat
Taking in life with the beat of your chest
You're wondering if tonight's the night
You'll be looking right in the face of death
Can't grasp your life, you can't fathom time
Is that why these questions are more
Often than not keeping you up?
They're mentally wrapping at your chamber door
Only this time, in this rhyme
We ain't talking about mother fucking black bird, amore
It's your mind that you hide in this blackness
Take it back, don't hide anymore! (It's time!)
Whether you know it or not
You can't trade your spot. You're all that you got
Your stomach's in knots. Hands clammy
Your thoughts are racing. You've obviously caught
Up to yourself. You're running a race
With no finish line to the point you forgot
Your own brain is running this thing
You chose flight, you should have fought!
Yet again, you're lost in the blackness
And you can't find your way
This veil is gradually sapping
Your strength away
Yet again, the hands of the darkness
Have swallowed everything
We've got to ignite the furnace
And light the way
And when my thoughts were building up high
I can remember when it was so easy to hide
Just push it aside, and when this darkness
Just seemed it wouldn't subside
I remember the days when I would just
Lift my eyes to the sky and I
Now seldom shield myself. So, subtle shit
Just shakes my shell and suddenly self-loathing settles
But I survive!
I surpass the scares and realize that I'm alive
I am Time. I exist with my enlightened mind
And I remind myself I'm superior
I appear strong on the exterior
But my insides are on fire
I've gotta extinguish the fear
Before to this edge I draw too near
So, listen here... I'm ready and willing to die
I'm ready and willing to die!
Yet again, you're lost in the blackness
And you can't find your way
This veil is gradually sapping
Your strength away
Yet again, the hands of the darkness
Have swallowed everything
We've got to ignite the furnace
And light the way