Codex - The Wise Man's Fear

I am not the man I once aspired to be

But I live with that just like I live with everything

A false smile to cover half my face from those who revel in righteousness

And a shadow of myself to hide all of the rest

The splits, the breaks

The tremors and shakes

Grasp like a hand

They swallow the land

Inscription hear me as the depths

Are drawing near to me they’re all that I can see

And when I held my breath and closed my eyes

For a moment it felt like home

The world is a smaller place than when I was young

But I still can’t seem to figure it out

It makes less sense now than it did then somehow

And my conscience has turned inside out

My conscience has burned out

But I love regression like I love myself:

On again and off again and at all of the worst times

In again and out again like I’ve been left behind

I can’t be happy that it’s over, just sorry that it ever happened

Inscription hear me as the depths

Are drawing near to me they’re all that I can see

And when I held my breath and closed my eyes

For a moment it felt like home

Take me home

This is farewell

This is farewell

My story may end here

The road may disappear

But all is not lost if we bear the cost

But all is not lost if we bear the cost