Embers to End

(twenty-twenty, was it all worth it? Bodies line the years, doomed kin festers)
 Survive.
 Survive this by screaming into yourself
 Things can't get worse, every year only seems
 To feel worse (when they come for you)
 Are we all safe now? Are we all fitting in?
 Assimilate to forget we never belonged
 Dissociate to beset the nature of fleetingness
 The fear (will it comfort you?)
 The home we dreamt up, carried away
 The home we dreamt up, carried away
 The life we could have had, a promise never meant
 I thought I knew where I came from,
 Where I fit in, where I relate
 The tides will change
 The ground will shift
 Nothing stays true
 (meant nothing)
 You strive all your life to feel welcome in their world, paying dues - used, consumed
 When their walls come tumbling down, who'd you think will be the first blamed for the fall
 Fire feeds panic swells (false sense security)
 Desperate, take the bait
 Chaos feeds hatred, sells (false flag civility)
 Desolate, take the fall
 (oh god)
 You don't know what you have till it's gone
 Stars won't smile on you (stars won't smile)
 There's no end in sight
 Where you don't lose it all
 No matter when, no matter how
 So fester, wound
 Death kneels hardly still
 Time ends on all
 Fester, wound
 We lost our home and so will you
 Time ends on all still
 Saving nothing, flailing down (coward)
 We'll always get the last word (choke)
 Only time till we're all displaced (another war)
 Who will get the last laugh? (one last laugh)
 Frail obedient wretch
 Swallow grievance from a millionaire's scorn
 You're nothing more than an ember to the flame
 The fires rage to your neighborhoods still
 Coward, you're nothing more than an ember to the flame.