Catalyst

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Catalyst
Open my eyes
To wretched morning,
Pale colors fade without warning.
Seasons shifting out of our hands,
Stagnant gazing,
Passions waning.
The incantations twist and change,
Face to face, waltzing again.
Innocence fragile as a shattered ring,
Shedding tears over anything.
Dead infancy,
Beneath scars and seams.
She says she’s done wasting her life
Tempting surrogate saviors
I know heaven is a good excuse
For bad procrastinators.
Still silent, I can’t resist
Bound and gagged, our Catalyst.
Rosalina, on crimson lips
The Ending Comes: our Catalyst.
Three years on and the lowest I’ve ever been,
Predictably fled once monotony settled in.
Had me fooled me with a kiss and a sting,
Torn between self-preservation and shame.
Dead infancy
Beneath scars and seams
(chorus)
As if I’d thrown solid gold away, obsessive dysmorphia remains,
Herald prediction of our final days, forged of the infernal blaze.
Flicking passion once sustained, now bound to me by solemn chains
The end: our Catalyst for change, union damned as the blackest plague.

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from Dark Altar, track released July 17, 2015
All music by Dark Altar.

Lyrics by Elias Alexander.

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