"Exulansis" - (n.) coined by John Koenig, is the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness.
lyrics
You’re afraid! You’re afraid! To let it take ahold of you, it’s only there to protect you// Let’s talk gods and devils, bring me your victor and I will stand as my own!//And when the smoke clears, you will know!//I will be the last one standing (Last one standing!)//I’m surrounded by them all my back’s against the wall (Against the wall)//‘Cause I won’t, no I won’t (Against the wall)//Be a victim to its hold//Why couldn’t you just believe in me? Instead you forsake me to die!//Why couldn’t you just believe in me?//Why did you forsake me to die?//There comes a time, in everyone’s life where the world turns its back on you and you’re left alone//and even your own mind is absent, and this is where you’ll be//Are you gonna stay down, or get back up?//If the pick lies in the hand of a dead man does he write dead music or does he write music for the dead?//We’ll never get back the time that’s already lost//It’s the price we pay, it’s how we bear our cross//This weight, this pressure, is crushing my lungs and I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe!//This is, an everlasting paradigm. Can’t you see it? Can’t you feel it?//The constant battles inside, the tears you try to hide//Your fate lies in the palm of your hand//I can’t breathe!//I’m so sick of this constant destruction, a figment of degenerative imagination//Clawing its way through my skull, this is what they must have been talking about://The loss of identity, the birth of insanity!
credits
from Root of All Evil EP,
released July 28, 2016
Written by:
Bryant Crawford, Lawrence Baldwin, Matthew Carter, Eric Crawford, Kevyn Larios
Recorded, Produced, and Mixed by:
Jerry Whiting, Room 9 Recording, Redlands, CA
Bryant Crawford, Brain Trauma Studios, San Bernardino, CA
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