Lotus Eater Lyrics

when did the world become so small?
when did future, past and present
come together only to disappear
when did my world become just me?

you are the darkness growing in my hollowed chest
you are the shit, you are the waste
that drowned my memories of better days
and i am you and you are me
one moment, in eternity

my conscience a burden, my mind a curse
my past unwritten, my history a hoax
and i am you

a constellation of one, outside of time
this moment my anchor, frozen in life

forever in the present
suspended, outside of time
holy dementia take me away
this island is too small for a wretch like me

one petal at a time

this world i inhabit is not my own
this body that holds me is not me
my world gets smaller, the gulf grows further
this island is no kind of shelter
one fucking petal


the lotus blooms below the barren peak
the lotus blows by every winding creek
all day the wind breathes low with mellow tone
thro’ every hollow cave and alley lone
round and round the spicy downs
the yellow Lotus-dust is blown.

we have had enough of life, we cry in spite
we have had enough of toil, as we take another bite

one petal at a time