Fated to Despair Lyrics

A sigh of stale air echoes
A cut down to the bone
Serrated blade digs deeper
As blood and trust flows
No good deeds gone unpunished
No saint left un-betrayed
The sun rises to another
Sleepless and unrelenting day

A familiar chorus plays
As a bridge burns again
More faith and hope mislain
A tired lesson learned again

Faith in god? Failed
Faith in self? Failed
Faith in others? Failed
Faith in salvation? A joke
Cries for help ignored
All outreach ignored
My emotions scorned
Message received: worthless

Waiting with bated breaths
For opportunity to knock
Silence, thick and viscous
Absence, tangible
Effort is unacknowledged
All given, none got
The sun sets on another
Empty and valueless day

No eyes weep for me
Seeing only what's to gain
Surprised despite the repetition
Half-healed wounds ripped open again

Faith in god? Failed
Faith in self? Failed
Faith in others? Failed
Faith in salvation? A joke
Cries for help ignored
All outreach ignored
My emotions scorned
Message received: worthless

All of life advances by design, cause and effect
So what's the reason for this?
Predetermined to fail
Destined to ache
Fated to despair

And in the end it's all for nothing, a lost cause
There's nothing to be gained except perdition
All efforts to improve only increase the pain

Each day I feel I'm moving farther from the goal
Things cannot and will not get any better
My muscles atrophy before the cancer spreads
And skin rots

The greatest lie ever told:
Lean on me when you're weak
Delusions hammered home
The end light seems so bleak

Faith in god? Failed
Faith in self? Failed
Faith in others? Failed
Faith in salvation? A joke
Cries for help ignored
All outreach ignored
My emotions scorned
Message received: worthless