[Verse 1: Zach Quinn] From the height of this peak This crooked path that I've toiled along Betrays itself to me unswerving Through this wasted land Stifle terror I'm cradling in Benign reverence of a nightmare [Spoken: Zach Quinn] Don't pull me out The climax comes The leaves of this clover ablaze, I must burn! [Verse 2: Zach Quinn] Fluid in tongues through accelerant lips Forged my own signature on my own permission slip I grappled angry Would not let go Cathartic subjugation I have come to know Dangling like a thread [Verse 3: Zach Quinn] Over the heads of the children of woe The credits scroll up and away left with nowhere to go But departures are arrivals in a certain sense And the rations I've been given have been marked as evidence Of willingness yet to survive [Bridge: Zach Quinn] I want to want to die I want to want to die I want to want to die I want to want to die But I don't! [Verse 4: Zach Quinn] From a mind under mire The sputtered patterns of endless thought Will strike the artist as self-serving As ugly as it appears The implications hyperbole Familiarity unnerving Powerless to change what I can't see [Outro: Zach Quinn] To thumb through a manual inherently losing my place A myriad of options Incisions to make Give me a moment