First
It’s desolate here
A wide expanse of gray
There are people roaming near
I hear them whisper of the gateway
Their eyes are distant, as if they were blind
They see right through you, your soul made of glass
They know it’s here they’re eternally confined
An emptiness that they know they can never surpass
A man asks if I know the Son,
His face is white, his teeth chartreuse
He says here, there’s a place for everyone,
Your lack of faith becomes your noose
I learn its rapture we’ve been denied
Some have waited a dozen lifetimes
Doomed to suffer, though untied
Unable to help their living crimes
The people are quiet, they look content
Their voices were somber as they spoke
They tell me it’s futile to repent
A nameless sin is one you cannot revoke.
Secrets!
It’s a never ending cycle
I want to keep my secrets and yet I can’t help but share them
Share them, contaminate them, infect, infect, infect
To you, I say
Be my solace, my haven, my palace
My secrets writhe and churn under my skin, restless and burning and intoxicating
I’m sober! I want to be sober!
Make me sober! Take my secrets! Give them back!
I’ll never speak again, my lips are sealed
I promise, I promise you I’ll never speak again
I’ll never tell lies, I’ll always keep secrets
Goodbye Acheron
My ferryman greets me at the shore
His hood is down, he doesn’t smile
The water is black, it paints his oar
I know he’s been waiting for a while
As I step on, the boat creaks and sways
The ferryman is silent, but he looks at me
The bodies in the water make for a decrepit maze
On the beach, they gaze from the shore at the sea
I see her standing from amongst the damned
Her face is frozen, a petrified wrath
Her blood drips down onto the sand
As she watches the water mark the ferryman’s path
The skeletons circle around his boat
It's there that they begin to recognize me
But they cannot speak for they have no throat
Their black bones writhe, a mimicry
They grasp and thrash, clawing at my skin
There are no scales, they’ve chosen the sword
A sable skull, one for every sin
The ferryman is silent as I’m pulled overboard