Kai Straw - Apotheosis lyrics

[Verse 1] If I become someone else after this Trust me it wasn't by accident And I don't mean my soul will change but The way I'm perceived will go through changes The Greeks once said That in each sunset is a God that competes, some said With the artist, and if that artist brought us A painting of the sunset, does that mean he caught him? And then he's viewed as more than a man is [be]cause he caught a God with a brush and a canvas And does that take a toll on the painter? Did he catch a God or did God catch his paint brush? Either way he's exalted To an alter by the people, then he's brought to A blasphemous status to the pastors Where he becomes a God to the ma**es [Verse 2] Is it the fate of an artist To go from a man to be viewed as God is? I understand Ebenezer, in front of a grave Wiping the frost off to reveal his name Can destiny be tamed? Or are we on tracks like who*es or trains [be]cause if my blood doesn't run red Then it's me being painted as Apollo in your sunset And the average man can't understand this They'll view me like Atlantis, or ghosts in their pantry I'm Poseidon worshipped by the leeches [be]cause flow's violent, getcha seasick Transformed by the essence of the art Confused by man as a God I wonder if Jesus encouraged the distinction Or if he was a man turned God once we deemed him [Verse 3] So the artist, the painter, the demi-God Wished he never painted anything he saw Psychologically it was wearing Being thought of as a God when his flesh was apparent So he burned all of his paintings Heart racing Lit a match to some gas in the basement Started pacing, his house engorged He locked the doors, plopped to the floor, heard the flames roar They started licking his toes and then his knees Then the pain ceased, and in the flame there was peace He took a breath of his humanness, as tears rolled Down his burnt flesh, gone were his ear lobes Gone was his nose and then his lips And his skin dripped off like the roads of a Venice trip And this was it, his heart was right then Feeling most human looking nothing like it