Year of the Cicada Lyrics

Exposed and paralysed, dazed by the staring of the swarm

Watching them cowering under the veil of the archdrone

Forged in desire to please the father of them all

They scrap their limbs to build a monument to their disease

Late is the hour

The year of the cicada is upon us again

A season’s change won’t prevent another obscuring descent

It’s just a winter of delay

Dethrone his reign at last, for another cycle to complete

To spread their wings requires shedding of old skin

Forsaken tomorrow, committed to a mocking song

The lords of summer fade under the absence of a sun

Oh

Even at the very end

They’ll sing along

Late is the hour

The year of the cicada is upon us again (Is upon us again)

A season’s change won’t prevent another obscuring descent

It’s just a winter of delay