Rite of Passage

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Feasting eyes on wreckage that surrounds me
Makes me wonder if I ever learned to live

I have such little recognition
Of what I was when I could still see your face
The many flaws, of my own admission;
A void supreme, I can’t pull away

[Chorus]
This rite of passage
It took all of these years, but now I finally know
One question to ask of you
Did part of me die while watching you go?

[Verse 2]
In the soul, the frailty is seated
Gnawing doubts that I ever learned to live

Look upon the days since you’ve departed
My grand accounting of errances made
This ache, incessant once it started
As I espouse a meditation on decay

[Chorus]
This rite of passage
It took all of these years, but now I finally know
One question to ask of you
Did part of me die while watching you go?

[Guitar Solo]

[Modified Chorus]
This rite of passage
It took all of these years, but now I’m finally shown
The cavity that grows within
Vacant space that was left a lifetime ago

[Outro]
Not fully alive
Just a shadow to be
Will I be revived?
Or transfixed in between