"When You Survive Death"

Here is the updated version of some lyrics being used in an upcoming Connecticut progressive metal band (no name as of yet).

"WHEN YOU SURVIVE DEATH"
September/October 2009

When you survive death,
You reflect on words –
Words with effects intense and profound,
For better or for worse.
They bring hope,
They bring false hope,
Love and despair and pain.
So this is the story we wrote.

So, move on.
So, carry on.

My poetry slides off the page
Into the earth and sinking
Under the scope of your sight.
Your poetry flies off the page,
Stinging and drilling an infection
Into my mind.

Hopeless defeat, be numbed.
Please find me, chemical lobotomy.
Worthless being, be gone.
Sweet noxious mist envelop me.
Oh, I have seen how everything changes,
Especially when you survive death.

So, move on.
So, carry on.

I would willingly give my life to another,
But I was never blessed with the chance.
I could bleed for years and never, never die.
I have been reborn many, many times.
I would willingly give my life to another,
But they were never blessed with the chance.
I could bleed for years and never, never die.
I have been reborn many, many times.

I do not believe in fate.
I do not believe in reason.
I do not believe in fate.
I trust only in chaos.
I do not believe in fate.
I do not believe in reason.
I do not believe in fate.
So why do I feel this has a sense of purpose?
What am I being saved for?
Who am I being saved for?
I have been bestowed with a sense of worth,
Which may be the only reason
I am still alive.

So, move on.
So, carry on.