Shadow Self ft. Cognitive Lyrics

The shadows they follow

Until they swallow you whole

Extinct the light and welcome the dark

Distinguish the shapes amongst the dark

I can barely see but I can feel

The shadows calling to me

It's like being isolated in a narrow room

Locked from inside no possibility

To escape or move

All I can do is live with them

And wait until I can be free again

There's no way I can escape

Their whispers crawling down my neck

Tempting me to join the darkness

Trapped in my mind I can't escape

Facing a version of myself that I hate

All these dark thoughts led me to them

Tainted souls leader of my inner hell

Dragging me to the gate

Leaning to temptation

Embracing my enemy

Their touch feel like blades

Stabbing through my flesh

Chained

I am now their prisoner

Without them

So incomplete

And when they're gone I cannot be

Can no longer live in denial

No guilt no shame

Ready to give myself

To the darkness

They're standing here

Looking down on me

Ready to drag me

To a nightmare

Feeding from my sins

Using me as a vessel

The gate will open

Leading me to the ultimate crossing

The shadows and I

Will become one mighty being

Accepting the suffering

Will guide me to endless power

I'll paint my eyes

With the falling ashes from the sky

Without them

So incomplete

And when they're gone I cannot be

Can no longer live in denial

No guilt no shame

Ready to give myself to the darkness

The shadows will never let me go

From now on

I will never be alone

They follow until they swallow you whole

They don't give up

Until they grab what they want

Sleep

Evermore dream

In the darkness

Promises of peace if I cease to breath

Suspended from my own gallows

Specters of failures creep out from the black

Expose the shadow that I've become

The light needn't seek me

I'll suffocate alone in the gloom