Shroud - The Breathing Process

Covet which cannot grow

Must fill what’s empty

Declare your purest self missing

Behold your doppelganger’s voracious appetite and wayward counsel

I owe on an open debt, mortgaging my content in numbing doses

Decay will take its place, embedding itself in the cracks of me

Alter my pain to taste, convincing, excess becomes God you see

When there’s nothing left to barter with

What will you take from me?

Cursed character shrouded by this disguise

Draind of all verve, a soul denid

This hunt for the dimming glow

Transforming this life I knew into bedlam

Disease of a sickened soul, beginning with a vow to forsake myself

Decay will take its place, embedding itself in the cracks of me

Alter my pain to taste, convincing, excess becomes God you see

When there’s nothing left to barter with

What will you take from me?

Cursed character shrouded by this disguise

Drained of all verve, a soul denied

A sickened soul denied

Left to a dimming glow

Purged and calcified

Purged and calcified

I have little to trade

Some crooked bones and the relics of no use to me

Now what is left to cheat?

Those swindled loves, and their haunting of my masquerade