You'll never be alone You'll never be alone You'll never be alone We've always been right here

O, Brother of the Tombstones, I come to humbly plead my faith Seek refuge for these fragile bones inside your cold, indifferent embrace See, there's nowhere left for me to shelter in, as this blizzard rages away And, I know, to you, I'm lesser than a snowflake, but I'm not ready to melt today I'm trying to see a mirror in your metamorphic face, (metamorphic, metamorphic, metamorphic face) escape the sea of broken skulls, their screaming jaws agape, agape (screaming jaws a-screaming jaws agape) Will I return to your loving arms, as my body crumbles and decays? Or is it destiny to drown beneath your deathly ashblack lakes? And as your shape looms in the night Countless snowflakes flutter and die Monolith, you're but a child With a fatal outstretched tongue In your suffocating white The precipice drifts out of sight O, there was only me, Falling endlessly, Into your arms, Into your arms, Into your arms. Into your arms Your arms.

"Come on, stay by the fire for me, it's pitch-black night and I can't see more than a foot or two in front of me. Come on, it's fifty-nine below, you've got a furry winter coat, and I'm freezing solid under this Scotch pine tree. Cause every time I light a match, the soaking birchbark just won't catch, and I'm running out! I'm running out. You can see in the dark, you can sense the autoamputation isn't far, and you're running out? You're running out on me?" "I'm watching from afar, my friend, you knocked the snow ajar, again, you doused yourself, and you're so far away from home... See, I'm guilty, but if I get closer, you would tear my belly open! Use my last heartbeats, just to make your hands warm. I can see the frostbite taking hold, and I know you wanted a heart of gold, time is running out. It's running out... So much desperation's in your eyes, but all of us are killers inside, so I'm running out- I'm running out? ...I'm running out on you."

I’m sinking into my shadow Secluding, no one will hear a sound I’m clutching for jagged handholds Unslowing before I hit the ground Vision briefly clearing, there’s a storm below, a storm below Into the mist; I’m swallowed A shattered meteor of icicles Swiftly burning up I’m sinking into my shadow (I’m sinking in) Secluding, no one will hear a sound I’m clutching for jagged handholds (jagged handholds) Unslowing before I hit the ground I’ve sunken into my shadow Secluded, nobody heard a sound I thrust my hands out to stop me Unslowing before I hit the ground

We exist in the mouth of a great skull She's everywhere at once We cower in awe when she crushes her jaws To tear the flesh of our breath from our lungs Oh, and I feel her hunger for me The forest ablaze would devour the seed Oh, and I feel her starving for you And I plead but I fear you're next in her queue We live in the mouth of a great skull, and it's painful to speak of death But there's nowhere to hide, when her jaws finally grind, will our eyes be closed or open?

Come closer to my side I don't trust my soul to save itself Searing knelling in my ear canals But I've chained you in my pull We stumble, choking, as we climb We're inhaling fumes of the crimson sky I guide you, feverish up the mountainside I know, I tried, but tonight I just don't feel merciful Eventually we come to find A narrow cave to be my catalyst Claustrophobic as the lives we've lived Don't you know it's all your fault I whisper in your breaking mind Frankly, I am fucking terrified Trembling, hand in hand, we step inside But I know I'm right And you still believe I would do anything for you I wonder how you'll look When you're blood and bone When you're nothing but the cage you've lived in Will you understand the way I've always cared for you? As your skull is crushed beneath our collapsing cave I know, I know you're small like me Two little droplets in our sea You'll forgive me Trapped under a monolith, just trying to break through And it's partially the truth But you've always been the hue Of my resentment There's nothing left for me, so I'll take everything from you I wonder how you'll look When your eyes lose hope When you've stared into the cave you'll die in When you've bled enough you'll look into my eyes and know There's nothing left in you to be saved Dust and floods and crimson skulls Through heaving walls I wish it never came to this at all I know, you were so desperate to save my soul But friend, no one ever could protect you from corruption of your own Oh, my sulphurous fingers Blackened ashes have spewed from my tongue Tears are blurring my vision Seeing a volcano erupt blood But I've gotta remember This is only a means to an end A moment someone understands So I climb back down, to do it all again Again, again, again

Find your way, find your way Straight, left, right, left Up, up, straight, up, warm Up, up Dead end, dead end Down, down, down, down Down, down Rest.

He gently entered my jaundiced room A mosaic of soft brown tones A subtle scent of pine needles A presence, inevitable Whispering, to my still-shivering form Nothing but blood and bone "I'll always be right here with you You'll never be alone" A shattered clock face in his wake Willpower, primordial But he withdrew from my room as a tidal wave As the cruel sun devoured him whole Teary-eyed, I promise him I'll wait Lonely in my jaundiced room Forever, or until he returns Or until this becomes my tomb We've always been right here...