Echoes of a Forgotten Rhythm Lyrics

I wear the mask like second skin - a barrier raised within
To protect myself, and to keep myself in
I drag soot and air into my lounges - contaminated songs
Strangers speaking stranger tongues

Can we go on with suspicious minds
When fears of others leaves us blind?
Insignificant others, no next of kin
I wear the mask like second skin

No place to rest, no food to eat - in this garden of concrete
Just bitter drops at the demons teat
Intoxication as escape - from pointlessness and self-hate
Threats of violence, threats of rape

The drums still beat inside our hearts
And where I end, another being starts
Isolation, a lonely hell
The beast inside scared of itself

Between the walls of glass and steel
Concrete above and beneath our heel
Inside our chest our hearts still long
The united rhythm and hypnotic song
The breaths in sync, the flesh that merged
Hundreds of generations converged
Lonely and sterile, inside we scream
Lonely in crowds, we deny the dream

I wear the mask like second skin - a barrier raised within
Insignificant others, no next of kin
Rising shares, severed bonds
No one cares, no response

But drums still beat inside our hearts
And where I end, another being starts
Isolation, a lonely hell
The beast inside, scared of itself

In this sea of flesh, all alone
Faces blank and eyes of stone
Between us all, the distance grow
What lies inside we'll never show
The forgotten rhythm echoes strong
Pulsing, beating in the throng
(Strangers speaking stranger tongues
Sing contaminated songs)
Our dreams won’t see the light of day
Evade your eyes and look away