Tear off my skin rip it off I feel the tension, I feel it crawl A thousand lives in a single soul Split by duality's pull An eternal curse Dissociating slipping back into the void Consciousness is fading rationally paranoid Consciousness is fading rationally paranoid This weight I carry In this life and afterlife Empires buried Under cryptic sands of time And I lost myself to finally find In death, we live, through life we die Caught in a paradox Caught in a paradox Caught in a paradox In the chaos I find peace on emptiness I feed Insecurities flooding my brain Normalizing feeding the pain Inherited trauma to my DNA And I'm taking advice from the demon in me Suffocate in the ways that I perceive Hate what I love and I love what I hate Beginning to drain my ethereal energy Make all the past burn away Just let my body decay The closer to the light I blackout The more control I gain, I crash out, crash out This weight I carry In this life and afterlife Empires buried Under cryptic sands of time And I lost myself to finally find In death, we live, through life we die Caught in a paradox Caught in a paradox Caught in a paradox I'll break the world long before it breaks me Tear me apart, no casket can case me I'll break the world long before it breaks me Beyond the veil and back again We're back Summon the reckoning This weight I carry In this life and afterlife Empires buried Under cryptic sands of time And I lost myself to finally find (Finally find) In death, we live, through life we die Caught in a paradox Caught in a paradox (Caught in a paradox) Caught in a paradox (Lost myself to find) In death we live Through life we die Paradox