LYRICS: THIS IS NOT AN EXIT. [2022]

 THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.

Voices, dark voices, loud noises
They’re screaming in my ears

Abstractions so flawless, remorseless
I simply am not here

Outward appearances frozen
I have no clear emotion
There’s no barrier left, only carnal aggression
No-one to hear my confession

Godless among us, this bloodlust
It flows into my days

Disgust and revulsion, compulsions
All lie behind my gaze

And there will be no quarter
Be no reprieve at the altar
We’re all lambs astray in a world of disease
And they all will be set free
Who’s going to set them free…?

’Cos even after all this, there is no catharsis
Even after all this, the pain has a sharpness
Even after all this, there is no catharsis
Even after all this, no relief from the darkness
MY CONFESSION MEANS NOTHING

No wider truth I’m dispelling
No lesson learned in the telling
There is an ideal, but no real me
Only a veil of greed
Something illusory
Something illusory…

C.C. November 2022