Efflorescent

Are you to grow?
No roots in the ground, acid rain falling down
You're drowning
Don't make a sound
Fear what you say next, words are put to the test
You're hollow and bleeding out
Tear away the foliage, the soil is watered out
Planted all these hopes and dreams without seeds in the ground
This pollution's gotten under your skin
The fear of faith in beauty keeps you withering

Come back again
Support's falling down, everything that surrounds you
It's failing
Invaded ground
The enemy's near, it is so sad to hear
Your actions caught up to you now
Tear away the foliage, the soil is watered out
Planted all these hopes and dreams without seeds in the ground
This pollution's gotten under your skin
The fear of faith in beauty keeps you withering

It's too late, "give into us," they said
Never was worth it
Now they're stealing the air
Gasping for breath, the color is siphoned from you
From you

Such ugly beings with siren voices
Causing a choir of rotted seeds
Singing songs of lost desire
Growing through cracks in the concrete