Terminus (where Death Is Most Alive)

This is a ghost town

alive with the echoes of failures fled

Lit up by shining faces that parade these streets

What used to be of humility is gone

You walk the mounds of skull and bones

Where living is denied

I see more movement in decomposition than in those hollow eyes

It is the only place I know

where death is most alive

It is when truth is turned to lie

that death is most alive

Set flame to the ensnarers and pierce that ornate shield

Branded by what claims you

you wear the mark of death

Tear from loss and agony

a character defined

Stripped of all but tragedy

what life is left to find?

Go now

until there's nothing left

Go now

the dying has begun

It is the only place I know

where death is most alive

It is when truth is turned to lie

that death is most alive

So I flee from all that is me to hide behind this pale dead face

Whatever happened to desire

want and need?

Whatever happened to integrity?

Imagination is a curse in all of this

Whatever happened to the ones left behind?

This is a ghost town

our bodies dragged through endless streets

Go now

to never return

I've seen more pitiful humiliation than you could never hide

It is the only place I know

where death is most alive

It is when truth is turned to lie

that death is most alive