Scavenger You collect to sustain a perfect replica Answer for no one but your counterfeit exterior Too weak to build a body count it bothers ya Having dirt under your nails It's such a tragedy Walking round with such a stride man it's like out of spite you fucking mock your pride You're just a traitor, a pseudo predator But I've got eyes like an eagle and I see you bottom feeder I've got eyes like an eagle and I see you bottom feeder The way you hold that fucking smile is an insult to a genuine display of joy You promised a symbiotic design but from what I know, your morals are maligned It must be so uncomfortable walking around in skin that isn't even yours A jackal can be so quick, unless you get it sick And you're so full of shit, I hope you become septic Hollow space, occupied with such distaste Drain me under cover of darkness I'll bury you under your carcass Once upon a time You still possessed a spine Now a parasite Leeching off the ones who loved you Just go and syphon from whoever you're into this week Keep your blade sharpened forever, there's downsides you'll see I know it's difficult but keep your swiping hands off my shit You're so smooth I'll give you that, so go slide into a shallow pit

I cower in the corpse of a memory we murdered Hiding under sheets of skin A heart encased in its own hell That's still beating for you, but the rhythm is Different Tears to hydrate a rotten flower The salt stunting possible growth of new life Press the petals in one of your books and Crush it with your passion for new insight A secret kept, a reality withheld The proof of fire disappears before closed eyes Though smoke is all one smells The idea of temporary defeated As you use my nerves as a blanket for your fires Permanently disfigured Use the final spark Ignite the film spilling from the reel Despite it being your hand It's still self-mutilation I still can't push the blame away I'm so preoccupied with its weight Solar plexus, kill yourself inside me I'll display your husk as a monument of relief Position yourself as a warning to others A tattered flag to wave No escape A tattered flag, demise inflicted Brighten your world with the embers of my efforts Colour in your skies with the warmth I provide Fulfilling the purpose you now have for me You're now free to leave, yet I remain confined Tears to hydrate a rotten flower The salt forever stunting the growth of new life Press the petals in one of your books and Crush it with your passion for new insight A secret kept, a reality withheld The proof of fire disappears before closed eyes Though smoke is all one smells

You want the world to see you as a person of value Irreplaceable, impeccable, a servant of virtue Focus on issues like maintaining your jawline But uphold your favourite mantra 'out of sight, out of mind' A superficial display of tone, and under weight you just rely on compressing your bones So full of words full of contribution, but now I see you're never really giving solutions Hopelessly in love with the idea of yourself An intellectual poor man in world of wealth You're convinced you're a bird of prey A beast in a kingdom of animals gone stray Sold on the idea you're ahead of the curve but what you've got you don't deserve Pseudo panther Pseudo panther It's time to take a closer look in the mirror, but first you gotta take off the mask Peeling off the layers of dead skin, you've used to provide impressions of good remark Your life is like a c-grade sit com but the laugh tracks were taken out a while ago And now we're all just standing in silence So now it's just a depressing display of gross incompetence You weaselled in, you liar Always compromising, unsurprising, traumatising Self-inflicted bastardising of your own imagery What is there left I could possibly say except your place within the world is shrinking day by day Day by day I don't want it anymore, just fucking have it back Pseudo panther, I don't want it any more.

You bring me to the precipice and force my eyes down soft sound trajectory is hard ground A hand on my shoulder weighted calmly but intentions are never what they fucking seem Swear I was only 14, thinking not for me but the little cunt that was festering inside me I'd say I was a victim but it takes two to decide on the meeting place and the time Oh well, oh well, oh well Oh hell, oh hell, oh hell Suppressing your face, keep your distance please They're reemerging, the reasons and the complications I thought I left you far behind, but it turns out that you're in my emerald state of mind Rendered subservient to the parameters you've placed on my behaviour Looking for redemption lurking in the darkest corners of my failed interests Wearing abrasive masks to remove dead skin, self-flagellation on the waste within Oh well, oh well, oh well Oh hell, oh hell, oh hell White light, white light, just be a little more blinding Force a corrective vision and remove the refracted agony I Won't Ever form the truest version of myself, and it's all because of you I tread atop the shell of a potential self, one without a need for what you took from me And now I Roam the world in search of it And now I roam the world in search of it And now I roam the world in search of it I'm not the one to place a bet But I'll put a buck down on the fact you fucking love this You're not real, just a filthy apparition Manifesting from the guilt I hold too deep You emerge from the guilt I confined within these cells I'd kill you, but I'd have to start with myself I thought I left you far behind, but it turns out you're in my emerald state of mind You bring me to the precipice and force my eyes down soft sound trajectory is hard ground A hand on my shoulder weighted calmly but intentions are never what they fucking seem

I swerve to the other ones of time Who gathered all the worlds of our decline Slit the open wound a distance further Feel the gape of the light seep into Oxygen running through the way my blood once was Empty avenues, the wars, the life I lose You sit across the room And look beneath the soul that died before you A heart was yours, wars never mine So open up the gape you rectified Oh you see the damage now Oh you see the damage now Oh you see the damage now All you see is blood Breath exhale the water flow within Death the final spit in our faces Leave the precipice I want to see geography Leave the precipice I want to taste geology Taste geology in my repent Taste geology in my pretend Eyes behind the gap in the front door You watch I gaze in shock You changed the grief and turned to fear The slip, the trip, the noise inside-

I was naive Under the impression that forced rainy days were just the instigator for your behaviour Kept in jar but the jar was shaken, easy justification for your frustration Hard to swallow that you're a bitter shill searching for thrills Telling strangers to overdose on pills begging for blood to be spilled I thought some fresh air would do you good, but I've learned it is that wasted on those like you It was a mistake to think that some real connection is all you needed, I stand corrected Forget what I advised, just stay inside You're no good to the world in any form Fuck your perspective Repulsive insect crushed Feel your exoskeleton collapse A feeble whisper in a world of noise A crooked posture in a crowd standing up straight Such greasy fingertips focused on the pleasure of Diffusing your responsibility You make me wanna be sick but I wouldn't waste a bit of good food on the idea of you Your place has been confined to a small hole in the earth where no light would dare to shine Go with your modern immoral morse code and find your favourite thread to pull, nothing but damage I'll let you out when your dogtooth grows, until then you're not fit to contribute to anything, anything A feeble whisper A crooked posture Diffuse your responsibility Endorse your tragic reality Don't go outside.

Like ink in your skin A lasting stain from history Permanently imprinted between my DNA Like ink in your skin Permanently imprinted between my DNA Like ink in your skin A self-inflicted exhibition of memory A promise to self To obfuscate the crushing weight We forget the pain but the meaning remains, only removed as a last resort To leave behind scars, a reminiscence of what we are when we're torn from what we fought for Forever entwined in my being, something worth living with And though the black fades to emerald, the meaning refuses to decay For better or worse, an eternal reminder I've come to understand, through all I live, I'll do it with you Cause me pain, distort my name, invigorate, or elevate Whatever I am, I am in your wake You're a part of me, we're one and the same Two beams of light, become one ray To scorch my earth or light my way In night or day, in pleasure or pain I'm fused with you, my emerald state Like ink in your skin A lasting stain from history Like ink in your skin A self-inflicted exhibition of memory A promise to self to Cause me pain, distort my name, invigorate, or elevate Two beams of light, become one ray I'm fused with you, my emerald state

I don't want to be around to find out Whether not we make it out Tried and true methods folding under heavy doubt Pick apart the systems, forge a new religion Use me an altar, tell me I'm forgiven It's a tough life, walking 'round in clean whites But it's so weird 'cause the colours aren't so bright Skies used to be a pink and purple now they're dull and curdled Fucking running in circles It's a mind game, funny how time sways Feeling so young but I see the lines on my face Think I'm counting down to the end but I don't think I've really contributed The colonel didn't get it right til '39 And then he still fucked up 'cause the animals died I know I'm so outspoken but I know I'm right 'Cause I can talk to birds and they say get out of sight Funny how time sways Funny how time sways I have developed an intolerance to the feeling of relief Predatory scorecards designed to rescind true notions of what's worthy Before the panic-inducing thoughts Swell forth like currents in which I'm caught I remind myself it's not forever, but who am I convincing? Funny how time sways Caught in my emerald state Caught in my emerald state Caught in my emerald state Caught in my emerald state I am a conduit for chaos Disorganised but not for long It's fight or flight which doesn't work for me 'Cause I can't punch for shit and my wings are heavy My wings are heavy I am a conduit for chaos Disorganised but not for long It's fight or flight which doesn't work for me 'Cause I can't punch for shit and my wings are so heavy

I held on so tight, my arms are weak Feeling like I've been secured to things that I refused to seek So what good has all of this been? I'm back at the start, irony made complete Never know I'd be so quick to grieve I'm so scared, I've never felt like so much was at stake I'm not one to show my emotions but I couldn't stop fucking crying today My foundations were built on sand that I saw as a collection of beautiful shells I neglected the weight of it all, and now I'm sitting alone in a world I built for myself I saw beauty in the simple days, what the fuck happened to me? Desensitised to the colours in my array, I didn't know it was causing so much grey I suppressed all these negative words, afraid abrasiveness would cause the smile to leave my face But I see erosion all around me I'm just a tattered flag to wave in the face of dishonesty I'm so scared, I've never felt like so much was at stake I'm not one to show my emotions but I feel like I'm constantly about to break My foundations were built on sand that I saw as a collection of beautiful shells I neglected the weight of it all, and now I'm sitting alone in a world I built for myself I convinced myself that I was the one with all of this patience Constructed my surroundings with the confirmation of what I thought was true I was wrong I was so wrong I was wrong I was so wrong Cursed with patience and I paid for it Cursed with patience and I paid for it Cursed with patience and I paid for it Cursed with patience and I paid for it I've held on so tight my arms are weak Feeling like I've been secured to things that I refused to seek Never knew I'd be so quick to grieve I'm so scared, I've never felt like so much was at stake I'm losing it, and I'm not preventing it Cursed with patience and I paid for it