Despair Is a Siren

Let down a rope
 I know there is another world
 In their geometry
 Is a straight line to a living death
 The earth is shifting like a plate
 My skin doesn't fit anymore
 I'm hanging by the noose of their lamp cord
 I see the bars of the cage
 Like paper dolls we're linked here
 Homesick for chains
 In their gilded whalebones
 We gasp and wilt away
 The earth is shifting like a plate
 My skin doesn't fit anymore
 I'm writhing in the flame of their ghost lights
 I see the bars of the cage
 Despair is a siren calling through the night
 The earth wraps itself in a shroud
 I curse my fate, I curse my free will
 In you, I see the glass towers coming down
 In you, I see something that died in me fester and ignite
 I'm not sleeping in glass chambers
 Who's the dead one now?
 My stand lives on in gas chambers
 Who's the dead one now?