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Wraiths and Spectres

from Crossing the Divide by The Benzene Ring

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The sky is as grey as the pavement
Meaningless ugly and vacant
I don’t know if I can take it
I don’t know if I will survive

All of my wasted devotion
Emptied out over the ocean
No one will recover it
It’s gone, it’s gone, it’s gone

No one can help me
I’m far too confused
So isolated, lost, and refused
A priest in the marriage of fear and despair

I thought that I could trust those words
That they wouldn’t let me down
Now that I am caught adrift
They will watch me drown, drown…

Scream into the mouthpiece
But I’ve severed the cord
Uselessly railing against and toward
A foregone conclusion
A dead-bolted door

I tried to navigate this fog
I thought I could find my way
Chasing every unshaped wraith
Lured and led astray

I thought that I could trust these words
They wouldn’t let me down
Now that I am caught adrift
They will watch me drown

All of my words sputter out into dust now that it’s gone

I can’t even make sense of page one
It may as well be written in an ancient tongue
That no one can decipher and no one can remember and no one even wants to figure out
So take a deep breath if it helps to
But no one’s coming back to explain it all to you
You will die a hapless mess
Nothing will make any sense
It won’t add up to anything at all

No one can help me
I’m too confused
So isolated, lost, and refused

Blinded by this endless fog
Never to reach the shore
Spectres of this long-gone world
Wait for me on the ocean floor

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from Crossing the Divide, released November 13, 2015

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The Benzene Ring is a Brooklyn prog-rock band. They explore lush textures and intricate, ambitious compositions. Their music appeals to fans of Yes, Sunny Day Real Estate, Hum, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, and Kayo Dot. Crossing the Divide, called “a true masterpiece,” and an "enormous, truly enormous prog-epic!", features Jeff Aldrich, Eric Hertenstein, Hwarg, and Daniel Gibson. ... more

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