Hatred and anxiety, drag me under the well. Spread malice, disease and filth. End my sorrow before it consumes everyone. The world is ending, and I’m making it slow and painful. Torture the ashes. So much for carrying my burden—let it consume my passion. So much for taking the high road—bear down ‘til only carnal pleasure controls me. Led to an empty end, depression falters, but ignorance prospers. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Look to the skies and wait forever, or open your eyes to your empty lover. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Gather my children, and make them the hunter. Teach them of pride and never to wonder. Anger and malice, pull them down asunder. Parents look down on a daughter and shun her. Too late to look back now, the end must be nigh—the moon’s bleeding in the sky. The servant soon will lie. Soon will lie.Too late to wonder. Too late to recover. Someday, we all must suffer.Led to an empty end, depression falters, but ignorance prospers. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Look to the skies and wait forever, or open your eyes to your empty lover. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Too late to take it back—you will never see the sun again. Rot in a hole or be consumed by the flames. I long to waste away
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