[II. OUT OF REACH]
Pain reawakens uncertainty
Into firestorms that burn your mental volatility
And when the tides of change forces one to open eyes
What do you make of truth and what do you make of lies?
So much aspiration, no room for defeat
Out of reach from all the things that could make life complete
Exuding this façade to divert the void inside
Weakness and strength, right and wrong undefined
Everything I've ever known, soon have to unlearn
While we might've come full circle, its a zero degree turn
You can never go home again, and yet alas
Of course we know that nothing, nothing forever lasts
What was the sum of all suffering worth?
Inventing our own meanings on this meaningless earth
If we have but one life to live, might as well have not lived at all
Illusory to think one can climb over this wall
[III. EXISTENTIAL CRISIS]
Adversity is the same all over
It rains on the just and unjust alike
Consumed by "what should have been"
Foolish to ask the question why
This realization of the haphazard laws
That govern me and you
A collapse in hope stems all across
World-weary; the resulting view
[IV. ENTRANCE OF THE ABSURD]
I was acquainted with the Absurd not too long ago
I've seen its true face and the power it holds
There's no other maxim by which to operate
We dangle by the careless whim of this phantom fate
What was left but "good"? But then different gods would decree
And the only universal thing we had left fell to inconsistency
So shall we follow into infinite obscurity
A paradox of a paradox: the unbearable lightness of being
[VI. WITHOUT SALVATION I PERSIST]
If it is in fact nothingness that awaits us after d**h
Then let us make an injustice of it until the last breath
Let us fight against destiny even without hope of victory
It was never for the destination, but for the journey
Most live for postmortem reward, for them it is a game to exist
I await no childish contingencies, without salvation I persist
[VII. ELEGY OF THE NIGHT]
For I am the night, more truthful than the day
Would never give the false hope of light only to take it away
Now that I know that nothingness surely will remain
I have come to accept it, move on, and not complain
Oh, world of contradiction and incompatibility
Soon to be face to face with negation embodied
When I arrive one day, you'll recall me from this song
I am the Absurd, speaking to you from the beyond
And the pity of it all is, it ends in perplexity