Track Insight / Lyrics
I sit upon the fire escape tonight
In this Manhattan summer's balmy light
The city's pulse a maddening symphony
As I unravel, lost in reverie
Haunted by the specters of my past
Echoes of every joy and despairing cast
Still clinging tight to these rusted bars
The only solace from life's paranoid scars
Iron spikes that hold me fast
Burning static in the electromagnetic cast
The darkness hides, the void unspools
From this perch, the concrete streets below
Fingers tracing patterns on cold steel
Each lineament a childhood memory's heal
The city roars a dissonant massage
While I unravel, tangled, haggard, and closed
Haunted by the specters of my past
Echoes of every joy and despairing cast
Still clinging tight to these rusted bars
The only solace from life's paranoid scars
Iron spikes that hold me fast
Burning static in the electromagnetic cast
The darkness hides, the void unspools
From this perch, the concrete streets below
Screaming cymbals pierce the humid air
Bass drums thud like a erratic heartbeat there
Jagged riffs descend like a demonic shadow
As I surrender to the void's all-consuming glow
Searing notes ascend like mounting flames
Piercing screams from my throbbing veins
Frantic, frenzied, a torrential flood
My anguish unbound, this catharsis unspool
Iron spikes that hold me fast
Burning static in the electromagnetic cast
The darkness hides, the void unspools
From this perch, the concrete streets below
The signal fades, the static drops
Into the night, my solace stops
The city's roar recedes from ear
As I descend, these spikes now clear.
