Sink me with all lost souls, the treachery of youth burning cold,
Pushing past all past regrets, trauma from a time that you’ll never forget
Everything you’ve done, everyone you’ve met, can’t claw you back from the land of the dead
Make the trade, you know how it goes, every hero haunts their habits of old

My mind sees fake spectres
Eternal ethereal, dead extras
All eyes fix on the centre
Shadows in the waiting wings, dead extras

Every path ends up the same, ground into the dirt or caught in the flame
Purified in the nuclear age, the sunken cities all swept away
Keep your eulogies, keep your conscience clean, tie your tongue with infinity
Seduced by the silver screen, illusory immortality

Drowned beneath the waves, drowned beneath the page
I won’t be a casualty of a cruel age
Drowned beneath the waves, drowned beneath the page
I won’t be a victim of the centre stage

And the hospital, becomes the final call for us all, plastic tags hold our names, lost in lists, caught on the page
Every one an actor, every part all played, audition for eternity, jostling for centre stage, as
The blood that birthed me, the dynasty in my DNA, in a far flung field of the cemetery fades under unassuming graves
Every orphaned author’s obscene dream, whats forgotten about you, forgotten about me, what’s written out of the obituaries?