Rain Eater - Rivers of Nihil

Time has come, I know the walls around me, I’ve covered every inch

I know they’re calling to me.

I’m bleeding minutes, seconds, days into this

place

But time moves so slow, I work finger bone

The flesh no longer part of me: I must emerge

I am the son of centuries of self-serving, sickening scum

I can dig, and I can crawl away from this place of iron and stone

I can just walk away, and I’ll be free to go…

Heed the calling rain, to a place that I can call home

Bury me so I might grow

Feed me rain, and leave me alone

Bury me, and leave me alone

Feed me rain so I might grow

Knowledge through growth

My veins grow out into the Gaian essence which feeds all life

Grow into the essence which feeds all life

Isolation, paralysis: the state in which I spend eternity interned.

Eternity flows

Time moves slowly, work to emerge, fulfill my purpose within the natural world

Within this temple of dirt

But time is no more, where this seed is sewn

The flesh no longer part of me: I am alive

I’m the sum of a million years of life, light and love

Reaching once-dead arms to the all-giving sun above

Men of flesh and blood would call this gift a curse

But they don’t know my pain, I would gladly serve this time a million-fold

Bury me so I might grow

Feed me rain, and leave me alone

Bury me, and leave me alone

Feed me rain so I might grow