All fear stems from the fear of death. When we are afraid to fail, it's because we feel our own pseudo-death in our failure. When we're afraid of what we may lose, we project our death onto this thing that may be lost. It is encoded into our very genes, written into us on a microscopic level, that we must struggle and fight to live with everything we have. It is life's most fundamental compulsion. Our great test in life is to come to terms with our own mortality. Perhaps we die before we find what we seek. Perhaps our time feels too short on Earth, among the ones we love and the things we enjoy. But to avoid this unavoidable fact devalues the lives we live. If we do not accept the limits of our time here, how can we say that we truly embrace life? How can we say we truly love, truly witness our chance circumstance of life, this thing that appears so impossible in the big picture? In acceptance of death, we find the preciousness of our time and we feel the gravity and importance of even our smallest decisions. In a crazy way, a good life cannot be lived until we feel the Reaper's patient eyes on our back, waiting for his moment to introduce himself and carry us on.
lyrics
Lyrics
In doubt, I succumb failing life bound in weathered skin.
All the torment I've known the crippling cold
to focus on a soon-entombed gaze.
The heart that was shared was it ever really there?
Grows toxic with time.
I'm colorblind but does the light truly shine?
Erased from life, it'll be too late to hear my cries
(love us)
Reaching in deeper than I have experienced,
trying to let love forgive myself in all my irreverence,
trying to let love...
Hold on to hope.
It's alright alone tonight.
Reside by candlelight.
(love us)
Reaching in deeper than I have experienced,
trying to let love forgive myself in all my irreverence,
trying to let love...
My world's falling down.
Black out the sun.
Soon everyone will know.
Welcome to the freak show.
Weighed down by thoughts of fear to fail.
I've been deceased before I let myself breathe.
I know it seems like a pitiful thing still holding on by the skin of my teeth. As it beckons, I can't deliver myself from my past,
deliver myself from my past,
to save my pride,
or what is left.
I keep it all,
locked up inside.
Locked, safely inside,
to save my pride,
or what is left.
I keep it all, locked, safely inside
credits
from Non Sequitur,
track released March 19, 2019
Written by Raiju
Vocals: Scott Wagner
Guitar: Bobby Carroll
Guitar/Vocals: Sean Johnson
Bass: Max Coley
Drums : Vinnie Hecht
From the 2019 Release: "Non Sequitur"
Audio Production: Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios
