Comfort in Illusion Lyrics

A dignitary doesn't waste his time

Second guessing himself

A luminary wouldn't offer light

If there's none left for itself

The visionary no longer inspires

Imagination fades away

Crawl out of the rubble

Don't spend your life asphyxiating

What a crippled little family life

They deprived me of my wife and child

Shatter the hubris of emboldened men

Did you believe in the power of two

When you were young and she was smitten with you

These are the musings of a broken heart

It feels like only yesterday

I had it all but it was taken away

You left when they were on the precipice

We've been here before

Without intervention

The sudden change

In your demands

It makes me feel

Like I'm on the way out the door

You're hobbling on cobblestone

The arbiter sits on his throne

Let's put the goddamn father on trial

The news media control the dial

Don't act like they won't blur the narrative

They'll say he's a troubled kid

Brainwashed

False prerogative

Don't act like they won't bask in the absence of truth

A dignitary doesn't waste his time

Second guessing himself

A luminary wouldn't offer light

If there's none left for itself

The visionary no longer inspires

Imagination fades away

Crawl out of the rubble

Don't spend your life asphyxiated

Through the trail of tears

I find my way down a river

Sailing past the tombs

Among debris of a past life

Giving all I've got and what I've gained to crossing over

I'm their memory

Embodiment of a failure

Be who you are even if you're misunderstood

You're getting somewhere still

You had to be the one

To show me that there's something

On the other side

Of grief and despair

Hiding from the sun

Been a year long depression

If I had access to a gun

I may not be here

The comforting illusion is setting in

(Better get in line. Check yourself)

Hostility fills me up like I'm a bowl

(Before you do something you'll regret)

That's ready to crack and topple

Overflow

(There's no reason to get so bent out of shape)

The comforting illusion is setting in

(You're gonna lose it all. It's your downfall)

The comforting illusion is setting in

(Better get in line. Check yourself)

Hostility fills me up like I'm a bowl

(Before you do something you'll regret)

That's ready to crack and topple

Overflow

(There's no reason to get so bent out of shape)

The comforting illusion is setting in

(You're gonna lose it all)

Through the living room

To the left and past the kitchen

Down the basement stairs

There she lies chained to her freedom

With certainty

I accept this grave condition

I'm the extra rope

The slack allowing for the hanging

Notify the authorities

And pray that they believe you

He'll rectify all his mistakes

Swears he'll do whatever it takes

He is not the man who he claims to be

Lives at 20 Psychopathic Lane

Says he did it

But he's not to blame

Claims he's not a criminal

Lives at 20 Schizophrenic Lane

We get calls almost every day

Man

He's delusional

We've been here before

It's the land of the false alarms

I see no relief

No

There's none ahead of me

Life is a struggle

We've been here before, as the crisis goes ignored

Without intervention

Crawl out of the rubble

Don't spend your life asphyxiated