My Own Deception

[Verse 1]
It came to me
Just like a nightmare
First, I felt the hate
Then touched the sky
Feelings of distress
Just whisked away
Shroud of perfect
Easing darkness
Did it ever leave?
I can't recall
The last I tried
My eyes bled tears of joy

[Pre-Chorus]
My own deception
The pain is no longer my own
Is this me? It all seems so surreal
Mind infiltration
Resisting a dark god of rapture
Now I kneel to my master

[Chorus]
I will persist, let go your mind
Do not resist, we are entwined
Leave me
You've crossed the empirical line
Return to your kind
This foreign star, not like our sun
We've come too far, it must be done
Nothing I do can keep you at bay
My senses astray

[Verse 2]
I walk the earth
Forever unaware
Now rejoice unto
My spirit veil
The deathless youth
Eternal wisdom sail
A never-ending source
Of power
You will walk the path
Or turn a slave
The more you stand
The more I dig your grave

[Pre-Chorus]
My own deception
The pain is no longer my own
Is this me? It all seems so surreal
Self-reconstruction
Look into the eyes of despair
Then fall in their wake

[Chorus]
I will persist, let go your mind
Do not resist, we are entwined
Leave me
You've crossed the empirical line
Return to your kind
This foreign star, not like our sun
We've come too far, it must be done
Nothing I do can keep you at bay
My senses astray

[Solo]

[Bridge]
A plan to imprison us all
Until we find a way
In time, their perversion will stall
For now, surveil

[Solo]

[Verse 3]
It came to me
Just like a nightmare
(It came to me
Just like a nightmare
Just like a nightmare
Just like a nightmare)
I walk the earth
Forever unaware
(I walk the earth
Forever unaware
Forever unaware
Forever unaware)

[Outro]
The pain no longer there
I've lost the will, my sense of reason
The core in disrepair
Can I believe my own deception?