ZTK - Go Not Gently lyrics

[Verse 1] Solemnly I often contemplate the total purposelessness of my own existence But at the same time I'm thankful for this amazing gift It's incredible, the depth of the spectrum of human experience Clearly reflects all from cowardice to fearlessness From sourness to warmth, from pa**ion to fury Yet as the distinction between good and evil becomes blurry The only thing I think that one could do is wonder or worry About a comfortable way to die, living their life in a hurry It seems unfair to me we're born without a say All of us come into life like that and most of us go out that way I shout with rage to somehow delay the clouded day the reaper comes There doesn't seem to be a way around the fate Your own demise is the one thing you could trust in I find it simultaneously beautiful and disgusting It's the one inevitability, regardless of objection or acceptance It's set in stone; d**h begets perfection [Hook] But don't you cry 'cause every one of us is born to die And even the brightest stars become extinguished relentlessly The balance mustn't be disrupted, it's uninterrupted Life is something everyone must relinquish eventually In order to be born you have to die and that is why We cling to things like afterlives and hope for multiple rebirths We're so attached to that which happens and those that we've met We hope to forget that our only destiny is leaving Earth [Verse 2] I hope you don't misinterpret it Nothing's permanent, surely you've heard it all before and understand The molten core up to the dirt on the surface Will be reverted, deserted, even the sky residing above the land Life is intertwined ineffably with d**h Neither of the two are opposites, in fact they're both one in the same Two sides of a coin, the negative, the positive I'd bet it's never possible to have the yin without the yang Or the water without the flame The yes without the no; any source of growth without the pain The pride without the shame, no type of night without the day You surely won't ever be born if you could never pa** away That's the way it works, it maybe hurts, regardless Life's an auto-piloting system which is flawless With no supervision so many different things evolved And we wouldn't have made it far if d**h was not a fated part of it [Hook] I know how hard it is to watch your loved ones die How hard it really is to say goodbye I know how difficult it is to fault yourself, trust me I've wondered why Feel the pain, release the strain 'till there's no tears left to cry How many times that an angel you knew could fly Felt the pain and was moved to try to escape it through suicide? It's true that you might always miss their identities But their spirits and their memories thrive through you and I [Verse 3] And all loses meaning When we see that our time is fleeting and our lives are depleting Defeating all that we know as we hold on hopelessly selfish Totally helpless against the sweltering cycle repeating That's how it's always been and how it always will be As long as I'm alive I know this life of mine will k** me And still we decide to fight it while striving for immortality Proud to be k**ing our only habitat with agility And every one of us will fade from sight, dismayed, contrite With some type of a plague or blight But do not go gently friendly as the day turns night But rage and fight intensely 'gainst the fading light You may be making plans and hoping to hold 'em But dammit don't take it for granted, frankly only a moment Is all it takes for your soul to be thrown away with atonement I hope today, you'll awaken and reclaim total ownership [Hook] As for me, when I slip into Infinity's frigid vicinity Remember this is what is meant to be I'm uninhibited, vindicated, swimming in streams Of unlimited dreams, leading again to the infinite sea This physical frame that I've obtained is none But a game that I've temporarily been playing for fun Enjoy your days in the sun before you return to the enormous Formless realm where all's amalgamated as One