Anchor, Pt. II Video (MV)

The hooks in my back tempt my spine to curve toward a sinking floor
My remains ushered into the saturated Earth

I find myself looking up at the obsolete overhead
Featureless as ever, unfamiliar to the end

Consciousness fails me as the ground and my will give way in succession
Downward come the waves darkened with the flesh of my predecessors

The peace I've sought in death is pulled from me as I leave
Where have I come from? What will I become?

I awake spilled in the shadow of an unnatural cloud
Enshrined by the eyes of the ascended
Its pestilence oppresses the skyline, out of sight of the extant
Our sacraments never revealed the outside

I'm left alone to behold my creation, my purpose
Scattered on the ground as I'm forced to be
The chains I've grown to know lay in a heap
The tears in my back banish captive memories

The air grows thick as I fade, return to sleep

Breathe in, breathe out
I'm so happy that you came here
Breathe in, breathe out
We're the same in ways yet unrevealed
Breathe in, breathe out
Soon enough you'll see that there's nothing to fear
Breathe in, breathe out
From us, great power has been concealed
Breathe in, breathe out
Before you're understood, you'll have to understand

I'm brought to life under the gaze of forms unlike the others

Before I can arise, I find I'm pierced at every turn
With all manner of siphoning by and from my core

"Fellow deceiver, made to drown for the arrogance you displayed
One whom fortune has favored, you'll serve your place"
I fail to find the will to answer to the strangers