The faces in the photographs weren't born that way The voices in the barn still knew what they had lost Something happened before the hunger Before the rage Before they started answering people who were never there I think we've been looking at the ending instead of where it all begins The light goes first Before the fear before the violence Something takes away the part of you that still remembers how to feel The light goes first Then every silence starts to sound like something else And once you're afraid of everything around you fear becomes the only thing that's real I think that's why they stopped smiling I think that's why they talk to empty rooms I think the voice doesn't tell them what to do Maybe it only teaches them what to fear Then fear does the rest. First you stop trusting what you see Then what you hear Then what you think And finally... yourself. The light goes first Before the fear before the violence Something takes away the part of you that still remembers how to feel The light goes first Then every shadow starts becoming evidence And once you're afraid of everything around you fear becomes the only thing that's real It isn't spreading at random. It's coming from somewhere. And every place we cross... is worse than the one before. "Closer..." We're getting closer to it. The light goes first Before the fear before the violence Something kills the part of you that knows the darkness isn't truth The light goes first Then fear becomes the shape of everything you touch And if this road keeps getting darker then whatever started this is waiting up ahead. Moria... If this reaches them...
