Juven Naidoo - Escapism Lyrics

Living through screens
Poltergeist
Possessed by scenes
Forgetting true life
Did reality flee
Or was it ever in sight
In fantasy free
The room of spirits always felt right
My chamber is hyperbolic
The sands of time never fade
All neighbours are bionic
Like machines to this ghosts good place
Is this my heaven or my hell
My paradise or my cell
Sometimes its hard to feel the difference
Is snake way above me
Or am I in the land of milk and honey
Both lead to paths of omnipotence
Maximoff or Scarlett Witch
Jean Grey or Phoenix
Vision lost, but grief dismissed
In the land of the scenic
I cant escape what I create
Reality left behind
This altered fate my good place
Blinded by visions of my mind

Do you see what I see
Do you feel what I feel
Do you dream how I dream
Until nothing is real
Do you live how I live
Do you cope how I cope
For some the scenes bring no thrill
But for me its all I know

The making of a method actor
The grief on stage becomes the truest chapter
The roses once thrown
Turn to thorns
The cheers once heard
Stop to form
Wheres the crowd
Did they even exist
A theatre in clouds
All the mind does is drift
Tangled thoughts shroud
Reality's bliss
Snake way reroutes
While chasing what I think I've missed
What am I trying to escape
While acting out this fate
Trapped by an imaginary embrace
Turned into a familiar face
What am I trying to erase
While acting out this fate
What am I trying to erase
Avoidance only causes the scenes to mutate
Maximoff or Scarlett Witch
Jean Grey or Phoenix
Will I try to rise despite the abyss
Or lay in the ashes defeated
Alwaya trying to connect the dots as I spiral in this helix
Hoping to hold onto what I've lost even if it's never needed

What do I see
What do I feel
What is a dream
Whats really real
How do I live
How do I cope
The scenes begin to kill
But is all I know
What do I see
What do I feel
What is a dream
Whats really real
How do I live
How do I cope
The scenes begin to kill
But is all I know

Being trapped in what I think
I cant take flight I only sink
Only react to worlds of ink
Until the light I live on brinks
The screens surround me cant escape
My vision drowning in this fate
Locked to the boundaries of this lake
All that I now see in full shape
I see the name of the bullet, its engraved in scarlet
I hold the trigger and pull it but always miss the target
I feel the noose near the neck the hangman is covered in flames
The phoenix is never a threat because of the ashes in its veins
I dream through every comic until I know the inks of its page
I turn all neighbours bionic while in the writers good place
I live through every comic even when the stories are a cage
This chamber is hyperbolic until the sands of time fade

What is there left to see
What is there left to feel
What is there left to dream
Now that I know none of it is real
I can never live how I lived
I can never cope how I coped
Now that the scenes have I killed
Everything I used to know