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The Loop Closes

from Archetypical by abbrev

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lyrics

LYRICS:

The loop closes
and the process starts again.
I'm going through a messy divorce
with my self..

We've become distant,
detached,
adrift
we've become strangers.

Recognition breaks down
my cognition slows down.
I am outside,
anterior to my self.

My reflection is obscured,
guarded from me,
by tangential thoughts
and avoidant, self-imposed alienation.

My thoughts are impoverished.
emaciated and starving.
There is no me
to think through.

Just an unstable, oscillating
stream of consciousness.
I reflect in it's white water
and see only froth.

The pressure mounts,
concentration wains.
I feel only
fatigue.

Interference glitches me
I lose my train of...
I'm blocked.
I'm fading.

There is a silence
that echoes.
I ruminate on obsessions
and obsess on ruminations.

My inner speech
becomes external.
Unable to discriminate,
I give into compulsions.

Attention and memory
are disturbed,
as is time.
Time
disturbed
attention and memory

Expression tuned down.
Distortion widens.
Perceive only distance.
World derealised,

How old am I?
What gender am I?
How do I do this?
Who am I being?

Anxiety leads to
panic leads to
phobia leads to
paranoia leads to
Anxiety leads to
panic leads to
phobia leads to
paranoia leads to
Anxiety leads to
panic leads to
phobia leads to
paranoia leads to
Anxiety leads to
panic leads to
phobia leads to
paranoia leads to
Anxiety leads to
panic leads to
phobia leads to
paranoia leads to
Anxiety leads to
panic leads to
phobia leads to
paranoia leads to

This is not my body.
This is not me.
That is not my reflection.
These are not my hands.

I fall apart, split in confusion.
I come back together wrong.
My arms move without me.
But, my arms don't move for me.

I am the reflection.
I am a shadow.
I am alone.
I am the only one here.

What's under the skin is dead.
I can no longer identify with that.
I cannot return to the routine.
And I get stuck in limbo.

It is the longest,
darkest,
coldest
night

of the soul.

I need to sew my shadow back on,
or I will float away.
I need to eat my own tail
so the loop closes.



The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts again.
The loop closes
and the process starts a+gain.

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from Archetypical, released March 9, 2018
Lyrics and Music by: Donnelly, J.

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