Present, but not here

Your sole omission 
To feel but you, my friend, are not to blame
Like autopilot 
Guided by a world that sees in shades of gray
That constant pressure 
Pushing you closer than you’d like to be
To giving up if only you could set the clock back on how things used to be

Too out of touch to bother foolin’ anyone from coming in
Built up these walls as protection from forcing 
You to socialize and conversate

Have you seen the news today?
An innocent man’s life taken away
A young boy abducted from his school
A woman raped, God this world is so cruel

In darkness
Seek darkness
Through darkness
Feel nothing
In darkness
Seek darkness
Through darkness
Feel nothing now

Don’t fall away
It’s all gonna work out okay
The sun will shine
Goodbye then
Be safe my friend
Don’t you dare go hollow

Go on and preach your nonsense
If that’s what helps time pass
Travel a path to nowhere
A step forward and twelve right back

No point in anything
Guess I’ll just go to sleep
Better than what’s going on
The world is shit at best
It’s all a fucking mess
At what point does it just come down?

A place that’s self destructive nature can’t possibly hope to hang on
And even when we are faced with a global threat, we let it separate us

 

Call out for absolution
Wipe clean this tarnished end
Eradicating morals
My good nature you’ll expend

Fucked, it seems
Fucked, to dream
Fucked, the life 
We were meant for
Keep on blaming 
All the others
Avoid the questions 
We want answered

Hard to act like there isn’t a war goin’ on in the world today
People treating each other wrong, and I think it stems from us just being afraid

Have you seen the news today?
An innocent man’s life taken away
Protesters march against the grain
Through tear gas clouds and the tyranny that reigns

In darkness
Seek darkness
Through darkness
Feel nothing
In darkness
Seek darkness
Through darkness
Feel nothing now

Don’t fall away
It’s all gonna work out okay
The sun will shine
Goodbye then
Be safe my friend
Don’t you dare go hollow