As I reach for the words they only climb higher, another seed lost replaced by desire. I have seen the temple built, I have seen as it rusts, how all these revelations could never be enough. A lie in the eyes of a man who’s given up trying to fix a world that will never have enough. Listen to the words of a new generation, I am lost in shame. I am lost. I have hidden all my truths in bewildered places, I will never find them now these thoughts are only mazes I dare not follow, because I know what lurks below. I am a mind of aspirations, propelled by the traumas I’ve collected. I now I see how I took your pain as I turned it into profit. Tell me again, can you fucking forgive me now? I spilled your name as the weak ones hear me out. Tell me again, can you fucking forgive me now? I just need you to listen, not form an opinion. No one suffers more than the man who sees it coming, I need you, the real you. Falling through a thousand thoughts I can never grasp at one, defining me in confidence I hope that they find their place. Human. A man that feels the lust of his father, a child that fears the scorn of his mother, a friend who betrays his brothers, a lover that cannot be honest. And though my ego writes this line, I am aware of the paradigm. Human. We are more than this I see it in your eyes, we are more than this, slaves to a hell we will not miss. We are more than this I see it in your eyes, we are more than this you just need to listen.
Archspire is wholly unique for their ability to write music that is this insanely technical, but also actually catchy and memorable. Absolutely one-of-a-kind band. Kadin Wisniewski