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Black and Grey

from Effigies by Backmasker

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Inspired by "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

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A lonely boy walks in the cold across a barren, somber land. His clumsy steps trod loosely on the uneven pavement below, once lush but now so bland. Each bank of ash he stumbles past reminds him of days long forgone. Under the murky haze each day grows darker than the last, the road goes blindly ever on. And we've been striking out with fists that don't connect, we've tried to run, but our legs are always wrecked. We're falling endlessly in shades of black. The paling light hides monsters gnashing from all sides. The swirling dust concealing vestiges where death resides. We must awake from this malignant self-catastrophe... won't somebody help us scream? Our conscience atrophies from years of slumber. We've felt the granite undertow it's calling us down, and we're softly sinking deeper underground. What will it take to wake from the hell we make? Death is just another plain that we all must cross someday. But sleepwalking through the pain waiting for the end to come our way? I'm getting up. I wake in hope, erase the lies and lulled frustration... I am alive. I stand in hope, embrace the brilliant saturation. I am alive.

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from Effigies, released October 31, 2012

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