Raw - Assemblage 23

Raw

Unsheltered and exposed

When every door is closed

There’s nowhere left to find protection

Now

All that I have left

Is this brutal, wreckless depth

I’m running scared with no direction

Dark

The only thing that’s real

It’s all that I can feel

And every single nerve is screaming

Wait

For sleep that never comes

My imagination runs

Out of reach and it has left me bleeding

When reality returns

And I’ve finally broken free

I’ll stand up and face the world

That once abandoned me

The flow

Of panic in my veins

Anxiety constrains

Every move and I am slowly sinking

Down

To depths I’ve never reached

My security’s been breached

A victim of my way of thinking

When reality returns

And I’ve finally broken free

I’ll stand up and face the world

That once abandoned me

Bleak

A desert without rain

I’m a prisoner of pain

A disciple of my own disaster

Still

This silent symphony

Serenades the barren sea

Calling out as if it somehow matters

When reality returns

And I’ve finally broken free

I’ll stand up and face the world

That once abandoned me