Memento Mori Lyrics

Time is elusive

Lifeblood that we've juiced from stone muses

Then loosed upon our canvases

Blossoming newer bruises to hues

Of deep impossible blues and chartreuses

The true scars of the artist upon a crucifix

Fused to raw expression from lessons of life's tutelage

Beautiful minds

Knowledge we've hewn from the abuse of these forces

This ominous dark fortress

Sourced by the cloak and dagger

Ensorcellin' demogorgons, of course

This seventh samurai who severed accords

I swung a sword - the fourth horseman with tragedies borne

I'll summon eleven swarms of the heaviest pain pouring

This chorus of brains storming through forests liked veins' torrents

A blade runnin' from sorrow, that's slain mothers

Whose sons ain't claimed cover

Like tears in rain, smothered

The coldest play could erase your blushed colors

But trust - those lines'll trace into dust and crush others

It's blood that binds love, whether friend, foe, or brother

These floods that rush forth bring the dread from cruel summers

We raised fists to the skies where flames hovered

Disguised the pain hid under ribs like cracked thunder

No wonder we developed in the throes of these exposures

Where broke down components grow a chrysalis of focus

As metamorphosis goes, we're all proponents

Of posing upon those podiums for Kodachrome moments

So I guess it's just an ode to known exponents

Like the wind from a butterfly's wings can breed commotion

Cause I remain devoted to rogue notions

As the summer breezes grow until there's hurricanes approaching

I saw it happen in slow-motion

From a technicolored crash painted black with no atonement

To waves of glass, broken like fractals torn open

To capture light scattered like ash upon the oceans