Running, jumping, blinking, stalling
Barely just ahead, you're
Tripping, catching, falling, breaking
Hanging by a thread, you're
Tantilizing, appetizing
They just wanna bite, oh
Sacreligious, tipping, slipping
Running from the light

Epinephrine, conscious, present
Running through your blood stream
Psychogenic, fleeting, hellbent
Sinking in the mud
The lactic acid setting in
Muscles crying out
These accidental visions, fractals
Pull you deep and down

We’ll have you psychoanalyzed
And subsequently hypnotized
To confirm that you’re a specimen
That’s suitable for sacrifice
For sacrifice, you ask?
Why yes, my friend-
For all comes at a price
And soon thе vessel we will find in you
Should finally sufficе
Evidently, consequently
Breaking off the path
Your neurons blinking
Snapping wires
Waking, screaming, wrath
Their song is ringing in your ears
Rupture through your skull
These accidental visions
Skylines, rendered out to null

As the age of man draws to an end
I simply cannot comprehend
The terrors and the ecstasies
That lie across that line
But time shall tell!
And you as well my friend will see
The price deserved by powers that be
As empires crumble ‘neath the weight of heaven’s spine