Acéphale lyrics

[Verse 1]
I want no constraints, no limit to self
No filtered, safe reality, no denial of all things raw
No dilution of individuality
I want nothing

[Breakdown]
We are collectives
I am alienated, hardly able to focus
My breath, lost in being
Everything at once
I am the reality of a planet dead

[Verse 2]
We live on as the destruction
As the ashes, as wounds
(It was never about hope
Nor was it about prevention
Selfishly I live as myself
Away from conceptions of outsideness)

[Breakdown]
With desire armed, but with no emancipation

[Bridge]
(And delirious in a winter heat
I am looking
I am looking, I am straining)
[Verse 3]
Visions I have had have fragmented into
Something darker, nearer, already here
Corpses still lay in flowers, we still grasp at ends
Palms opening to reveal nothing
Yet with a certain stillness
My own lifelessness
Everything has finally arrived

[Chorus]
But I can’t
Watch as this
Crumbles, thinking
Only of me
But I can’t
Watch as this
Crumbles, thinking
Only of me
But I can’t (Beyond boundaries)
Watch as this (Beyond borders)
Crumbles, thinking (Beyond self)
Only of me (I always can)
But I can’t (Beyond boundaries)
Watch as this (Beyond borders)
Crumbles, thinking (Beyond self)
Only of me (I always have)