Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Digression to an unknown fear, mortified, Souls embraced in a darkened grasp, path to hell, Infiltrate the weakened mind, succumb to death, Waste away, convulse in pain, dissolve within...
Twisted brain decays, Abstract world of pain, Anguish of the mind, Tortured afterlife
Bodily entombed...Beckons internal grave, Paralyzed with fear...Internal Decadence
Submit to parasitic thoughts, drown in a mental haze, Extraction from reality, feelings now devoured, Dimension in hell, rotting mind, wastes away, Desire life, fade away, suffer endlessly...
Exiled from sanity...Never to return
Mental paralysis...Internal Decadence
Noble ones perverse, Fulfillment of their lusts, seeking innocence, to satiate their needs, Children for their pleasure, abducted from t he world, adopted into hell, punished for their births...
(Circle of ) maniacs
Rules of their existence, insane immoral laws, desires are forbidden, lusting for their flesh, sickened evil minds, manipulate to death, one hundred and twenty days, Sodom redefined...
(Circle of) excrement
Kneel down before the lords and taste the filth awaiting you, A noble feast for those enslaved, enticing vows of defilement
Unholy palace of perversion, embellished with depravity, Embrace your life, for now it slips away
(Circle of) blood
Commencement of their final trial, upon their final day, trembling naked figures slowly marched into the courtyard, tender flesh is seared and ripped, tides of blood released
The masters watch in ecstasy the orgies of the damned.. A sacred ground of tragic deaths
Twisted brain decays, Abstract world of pain, Anguish of the mind, Tortured afterlife
Bodily entombed...Beckons internal grave, Paralyzed with fear...Internal Decadence
Submit to parasitic thoughts, drown in a mental haze, Extraction from reality, feelings now devoured, Dimension in hell, rotting mind, wastes away, Desire life, fade away, suffer endlessly...
Exiled from sanity...Never to return
Mental paralysis...Internal Decadence
Noble ones perverse, Fulfillment of their lusts, seeking innocence, to satiate their needs, Children for their pleasure, abducted from t he world, adopted into hell, punished for their births...
(Circle of ) maniacs
Rules of their existence, insane immoral laws, desires are forbidden, lusting for their flesh, sickened evil minds, manipulate to death, one hundred and twenty days, Sodom redefined...
(Circle of) excrement
Kneel down before the lords and taste the filth awaiting you, A noble feast for those enslaved, enticing vows of defilement
Unholy palace of perversion, embellished with depravity, Embrace your life, for now it slips away
(Circle of) blood
Commencement of their final trial, upon their final day, trembling naked figures slowly marched into the courtyard, tender flesh is seared and ripped, tides of blood released
The masters watch in ecstasy the orgies of the damned.. A sacred ground of tragic deaths
Lyrics submitted by Disposition_987
Internal Decadence Lyrics as written by Ross Dolan Robert Vigna
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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