Cruel Bloom

Voracious children and wolves

Sharpen their teeth on our bones

Carrion feeds the wretched

Vacant eyes peer through the hole

Beggars and thieves

Bring down a common enemy

While pawnshop kings and corner queens

All hawk their souls for gold

Lifelong victims pound and claw at the ground

Searching for a way out of their skin

Writhe in the cruel bloom

Trying to find beauty

In flesh torn from me

Trying so hard not to lose you

In cobwebs and empty hearts

Lifelong victims pound and claw at the ground

Searching for a way out of their skin

Writhe in the cruel bloom

Witness the ghostlike shades of ourselves

Searching for any way out of our skin

Writhe in the cruel bloom

Harvest your own

Suffer no fools, they will not have their day

Your broken wings drag us down into the shadows

There's no room for foul soil on this good earth