My heart is testing me

Taking the best of me

Too weak to go on

So take the time you need

Nothing is guaranteed

Even idols may drown

There is a price to pay

All we desire can be taken away

Here we lay down our resolve

A heavy moon surrenders its glow

Illuminating the blood on new-fallen snow

I watched them wait in line

Blank faces frozen in time

Never to thaw, yet they beg for more

I have opened up the veins of the earth

I have drunk from the sky and the sea

Is this all worth dying for?

Our lives are not much more than a metaphor

A fool’s pursuit

Burn the roots before the fruit is rotten

Burn the roots

Let us germinate and start anew

If indeed there is more to see

Then let the truth reveal itself to me

I have opened up the veins of the earth

I have drunk from the sky and sea

I have opened up the veins of the earth

And there is nothing there for me

Ever pessimistic, nihilistic state of mind

Fatally hedonistic, watch as we slip into decline

Frozen in time

My heart is testing me

Taking the best of me

Too weak to go on

So take the time you need

Nothing is guaranteed

Even idols may drown

We all deserve to be

Held like a memory

But some will never know

Is this all worth dying for?

Our lives are not much more than a metaphor

A fool’s pursuit

Burn the roots before the fruit is rotten

Take back all you’ve said before

Our lives are not much more than a metaphor

A fool’s pursuit

Burn the roots before the fruit is rotten

Burn the roots, the fruit is rotten