Anhedonia

(The) crypt is calling
The ghosts have spoken
The pain of longing
Has long eroded
All the joy that was
Once a ceaseless thought
Incandescent, so it
Lit the sky up and then
Lifted eyes and souls
Feeble rapture folds

Prophecize the end
Find the cognizance

Enraptured but dispairing
Fulfilled on always dreading
Caught up in the gospel truth that tells me of the end
Destroyed but always cheerful
A hope that leaves me fearful in a waking dream of sin

(A) slight against
The whimful notion
That pain exchanged
Begats devotion
Tell them: The good news
Waste it on the youth
Ostracize your child with
Questioning their life in
A world that you create
A foot within the grave

(A) refuge in
Your brief embracement
They complicate with seething hatred
Sworn to follow suit
How will they abuse?
Consume every vice if
Salvation is priceless
I want to break away
Feel the last of days

Fall into perfection
Followed by ascension
I will fall
I will follow suit
I will fall
I will follow suit

Ostracize your mind
Patronizing lies (ostracize your mind)
Circumvent the sacrament
You must repent
And leave your ten percent at the pulpit