Ugly Shadow

Peeling back the tarnished surface

Looking down inside the engine

Finding all the ugly motions

That I condemned in other people

The same malice that I reviled

Living inside my own orbit

I am the disease I fought

I absorb the symmetry

Carrying the exact venom

Growing in the quiet soil

I become the villain I despised!

Feeding on the rot I used to hate!

Looking down into my own abyss!

Every shadow wears my own profile!

I am built from what I tried to kill!

Drown inside the hypocrite I made!

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same decay.

Searching for a clean horizon

Only finding shared pollution

Every flaw I pointed outward

Reaches deep into my tissue

I constructed my own monster

I am the disease I fought

I absorb the symmetry

Carrying the exact venom

Growing in the quiet soil

I become the villain I despised!

Feeding on the rot I used to hate!

Looking down into my own abyss!

Every shadow wears my own profile!

I am built from what I tried to kill!

Drown inside the hypocrite I made!

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same decay.

Standing in a ruined chamber

Recognizing my own violence

No one left to blame or target

When the virus is my nature

I collapse the moral distance

Married with what I tried to sever

I am the disease I fought

I absorb the symmetry

Carrying the exact venom

Growing in the quiet soil

I become the villain I despised!

Feeding on the rot I used to hate!

Looking down into my own abyss!

Every shadow wears my own profile!

I am built from what I tried to kill!

Drown inside the hypocrite I made!

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same reflection. Same decay.

Same decay.