From the recording The Cardinal Passage
Lyrics
The city speaks in static, words bounce off the steel and stone
Hope gets taxed and dreams get repo’d when you feel alone
Billboards sell you masks, then wonder why your soul’s unknown
They privatized the pain, now we rent grief like it’s on loan
I saw kings lose crowns just to cope with a high they chased
Felt prophets turn to powder, sniffing purpose off china plates
The system builds the maze, then blames the rats it separates
While feeding us illusions in high-fructose mental states
I wore my trauma like armor woven with iron thread
Walked through hell’s cathedral where the choir bled
Tried to write joy, but ink dried up when desire fled
Every verse was a dirge, every rhyme what the liars said
News cycles loop like curses dressed in broadcast blues
Selling fear in HD while they auction off your truth
We sip depression slow, like aged regret in vermouth
Looking for God in pills or tucked in a lover’s booth
But then you
You touched me like silence after sirens wail
Like hope wrapped in scripture inked on prison mail
You moved through my ruins like a holy grail
A lighthouse kiss in a world that wants us frail
Your voice was a hymn sung in seismic codes
Unlocked the locks on my psychic roads
You saw the spark in a life where the light erodes
And loved me loud 'til the void turned to writer’s gold
Now I rise like ink stains on ancient scrolls
Like truth in cipher decoded from stolen souls
I spit with a tongue that the prophets told
And march with the fire that Elijah holds
I am more than their metrics, more than their charts
More than the noise beg I surrender my art
They cracked my spirit, but knew better than to question my heart
Your love gave me an armor wielding the strength of the stars
Now tell the architects of agony I’m done being prey
I found my voice in the ruins, turned the ashes into clay.
Must to build with bars what they tried to betray
This ain’t survival, it’s ascension, the old me was wasting me away
Still me just in a new phase protect peace
Thats a conduits way
I breathe with a hunger that the gods bestowed
Blooming through dimensions where the veil foreclosed
Consuming their attention giving hell per dose
Refusing the contention to live in failures pose
Scripted in defiance where the damage grows
My pain played keys that the battle chose
Now purpose plays me back while the piano rolls