Albatross - DEITY

My past’s a story I tell myself

But it changes every time it’s read

Retraced the lines to find that I’m not alone in my head

Over my shoulder I feel it breathing

God, I wish someone was left

My past’s a story I tell myself

But it changes every time it’s read

Every crack on the floor

Is conquered

The mistakes you deplore

Are haunted

What you’re going toward

Can’t alter

What you can’t ignore

I’m straining

Ripped vocal cords

I’m stressing

Till every synapse is torn

My conscience

Is where this anger is born

And I’m rotten

To the fucking core

It’s written on your face

Complacent shades of gray

Retraced the lines to find that I’m not alone in my head

Over my shoulder I feel it breathing

God, I wish someone was left

My past’s a story I tell myself

But it changes every time it’s read

It’s written on your face

Complacent shades of gray

Self-satisfaction will crush you with its weight

Better put your ego in chains

I swear you’ll never learn your place

This is the albatross

Around my neck