Aphelion Lyrics

A pillar to the world between worlds

An unfinished escape
of the brain in a cage

Doldrums! Doldrums!
The bleak and beige
I am an absentee
My hand, a wasteland
Find me a spark, find me a watershed

The first sight of love
Like a dance in the air
A born-again high
The best in my life, the sea and the stars

The rabbit hole, I'm sinking further
Far and away, I feel everything

The aches and pains of the years have ravaged us
But smooth waters don't make strong sailors

Beyond the pale, I feel it slipping
The path that leads to you
Dreaming, dying just to break loose
It seems so far away

The moment electric
The planet halts for us

From the edge of it all
You found me
Drowning and breathless
It took one look in your eyes
I'd swear I'd live forever

"Where do we go when we die?"
The Great Unifier
Cruel and ancient
The earth can keep us
But happy I'd be in a cosmic forever

The work made early meant nothing
The flame came from your gaze
The colors that permeate
A glow that rivaled our Sun

Falling end over end
Never a second unworthy
"Nothing", a blissful, blank canvas
Crumbling under the weight of each other

Swimming through the frame
A crippling hunger to plant roots
Flickering in and out again
Burn it down!

Beyond the pale, I feel it slipping
The path that leads to you
Dreaming, dying just to break loose
It seems so far away

Comforting void
Empty handed
It stares back at me
Reflecting nothing

There was never another
The world lost its color
I saw them circle
Closer and closer

One by one, their voices say
"The dark only gets darker"
"Stop living a life on the drain"

"A broken skull will end your thinking..."

Drop.
Eyes closed.
Give in.
Exhale!

Farthest in my orbit the center
Of everything that I am
Slipping through the cracks of the surface
A burning Icarus

Grasping and force feeding of what's dead
Poisons the well of
Flailing thoughts of memories of feelings I won't feel again

Tremble! Tremble!
Peel away the
Layers of me
Rebuild from ruin
I feel it breaking down
Until I am the only
One left in my way

In the dream,
We fall away

I find you solitary
A face in knots
Your skeletal silver
Frozen in fractals

Is this what we are?
Awed by onlookers?
Where is the muse?
Who would love you?

I see you
I feel you
You aren't lost on me
A lesson
A warning
To be the better of us

We are human
Only human
We are flawed and starving

We are dreaming!
We are dying!
Crashing through each other!
Terrified!