Shackle Lyrics

A fair to middling pass collapsing on some dissonance

A fitter mode a better patch something to aid the bitter past

But you can't look backwards and keep up this pace

Locked in a contest of wills that are never displaced

I seek the higher call fire's all I seem to spit

Wander through the desert til I till the soil yet again

Turned the Gobi to gladd they're still catching up to speed

I write for the people who feel they don't have a creed

So 'fuck it's still the credo

Throwing shots Greedo

Until I cannot feel and fall into tube torpedo

Sent into the world I've been thrown into this

Flow is so Heidegger strictly metaphysics

Raise a glass and raise a fist

Break the pattern breathe the mist

There's a whole lot to the patchwork fabric of existence

And this dance will continue ever on

Even after we're gone Earth will sing this yearning song

So we get strung along like we've never been in tune

I want to take my strength and fortitude and weave it right into you

That's a classic clash of passion meeting material need

I cannot let this misery catch up to me

All that you know

Will be as dust when you go

Don't let that be your shackle

Don't let that be your shackle

I see you lashed to the front of the ship and ask who did it

And you replied 'well I did but it's just cutting them off at the quick'

So if you punish yourself somehow that's getting one over

That's the logic of letting dishes gather mildew and molder

Because all they're gonna do is dirty up again so please

Tell why we ought to do any of these things?

I recognize the state of mind asking the question

I test the pressure and sift through all my objections

Couldn't breach a better lesson

I show the chain's lock and opening that can your obsession

The depth you step in is best expressed as death plus compression

To break through and cast the chain aside my truest confession

All that you know

Will be as dust when you go

Don't let that be your shackle

Don't let that be your shackle