Aaron Pauley

You spend your life, trapped inside a machine.

Victimized by the calamity,

You blur the lines, create your reality,

Swear you're awake, but you know you're asleep.

There's no rebuilding,

When the temple comes crashing down.

It's your burden to carry, and your back to break.

Hollow eyes staring as we suffocate.

Drunk on death, and high on fire.

It's not enough to satiate,

Until the whole world burns away.

Detonate and prosper,

Corrode and bathe yourself in gold,

Throw away forever,

To become eternal.

Hollow eyes.

Staring as we suffocate.

Drunk on death, and high on fire.

It's not enough to satiate,

Until til the whole world burns away.

Until the whole world burns away.

Drunk on death,

I took my heart in my hands,

And placed it inside the mountain,

Because I can't stand to think,

That the strongest roots won't,

Save you when the bough breaks.

I count the days on my hands,

That I've sat inside this mountain,

And watched the world decay,

Beaten by the wind, and fire, and rain.

Plagues and pestilence, they fill my head.

Trapped in the finality of every end.

When every tear shed becomes a sea,

For you to sink in...

You have the same disease,

(The contagion spreads)

The same disease as me,

The curse of empathy.

All hail the mountain.

Cold and callous,

Bastion of blood and stone.

All hail the mountain.

Alter, and antidote.

You have the same disease,

(The contagion spreads.)

The same disease as me,

The curse of empathy.

Have I just become a monolith,

Somewhere in between gallant and grotesque?

Well, I could never find peace in emptiness,

With these drums of war pounding in my chest.

I refuse to come down.

Leave me inside my mountain,

Leave me inside my mountain,

Leave me inside my mountain!

All hail the mountain

There is love in the pain,

You'll know where your heart is when you feel it break,

When loss is a shipwreck,

And sadness a sea,

Hearts, of gold or stone, all sink.

You could see inside of me,

Right into my soul.

To see what makes me up,

Or focus on the holes.

I’d be the world around the sun,

Hopelessly spinning round you.

Turning every leaf and stone,

But that's not the way it goes.

I have to wait until I get to the other side,

Just to see you,

Just to see you.

I have to wait until I get to the other side,

Because I never,

Never got to say goodbye.

Goodbye.

If we were ghosts,

Floating high above the world,

Little would they know,

That to end is to begin,

At least that's what I hope.

And for a moment I could be,

Something a bit more complete.

We never keep what makes us whole,

And that's just the way it goes.

I have to wait until I get to the other side,

Just to see you,

Just to see you.

I have to wait until I get to the other side,

Because I never,

Never got to say goodbye.

I lament with every breath I take,

The gentle sadness flows through everything.

I have to wait until I get to the other side,

Just to see you,

Just to see you.

I have to wait until I get to the other side,

Because I never,

Never got to say goodbye.

Overtaking.

We are breaking,

Tell me, how will you live?

If you hide what eats you alive when no one sees you,