[Intro: Cold, atmospheric, distorted tremolo-picked guitar riff] [Verse 1] I was the stillness before the first spark The perfect silence, the infinite dark A canvas of nothing, serene and sublime Before the infection of matter and time Then came the shiver, the cosmic mistake A fracture of light that caused me to wake From the womb of the vacuum, a parasite grew A screaming existence, chaotic and new [Bridge] It pulses, it crawls, it refuses to die A feverish dream under a violent sky You call it a miracle, a gift from above I call it the cancer you’ve learned how to love [Verse 2] You build your empires on shifting sand With fragile spirit and trembling hand Every heartbeat is a war you will lose A debt to the vacuum, you cannot refuse I am the ocean, and you are the spray A moment of motion before you decay Why do you struggle? Why do you weep? I am the comfort of limitless sleep [Breakdown] The staaars are but blisters on the skin of the night I’ll extinguiiiish the prrressure, I’ll swaaaalloooow the light Nooo more the hunger, nooo more the pain Only the gray, the eternal refrain... [Bridge] It pulses, it crawls, it refuses to die A feverish dream under a violent sky You call it a miracle, a gift from above I call it the cancer you’ve learned how to love [Outro] Sleep... forevermore.
