Ascendancy

Worthless in meaning I'd climb higher and higher Until the roof caved in Now I'm treading through water Trying to find what'll make Me whole inside But nothing can focus All of my pain into artistry Shit through the eyes Of a mild creator Chasing a dying dream Everything I have done Everyone I have lost Never compares to the story I've dropped I only want you to see How I view this world Ruled by hypocrisy Everything I have done Everyone I have lost Never compares to the story I've dropped I only want you to see How I view this fucked up world That lives off me I won't be anyone's martyr I'll die for a reason that no one believes in For one more look at you I won't be anything I can't be the only one I hold my heart out Till the second that the Last drop hits the ground Now I am awakened It's not until I spill my guts Along the pavement That you will reconcile Why can't you recognize The power of fact and Beauty in violence I am the shepherd, the common man The messenger of fate and worry I put the words in the serpent's hiss That'll dry you out And make you sorry I preach the word of your common values The truth you can't un-see Everything I have done Everyone I have lost Never compares to the story I've dropped Everything I have done Everyone I have lost Never compares to the story I've dropped Points made through suffering You're alone can't you see Everyone around you thinks The same damn thing Can't you see how The night grows nearer Filling out the sky Lost again, still you try To wish it all away Can't you see how The night grows nearer Filling out the sky Lost again, still you try To wish it all away Wish it away Worthless in meaning I'd climb higher and higher Until the roof caved in Now I'm treading through water Trying to find what'll make Me whole inside