Spillways
Impera
2022
Duration: 3:16
Track number: 3
Times played live: 104
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
An elegy for the darkness that resides inside most people. Just as spillways prevent a dam from overflowing, this song suggests that the inner darkness within humanity needs an outlet or release. The metaphor explores how repressed shadow-self and suppressed emotions must find a way out to prevent psychological and spiritual overflow.
Lyrics
Through benediction
You tried to rid your mind
Of malediction
But through all this time
You try to peel it off
And it is such a ride
Your desolation
Led you into this
Vile incarnation
Of consummated bliss
I know you need it now
To make you feel alive
All your faith
All your rage
All your pain
It ain't over now
And I ain't talking about forgiveness
All your faith
All your rage
All your pain
It ain't over now
It is the cruel beast that you feed
It is your burning, yearning need to bleed
Through the Spillways...
You keep a casket
Buried deep within
You try to mask it
But fall back in sin
You want to shake it off
But you are stuck inside
When stripped of rags
Of skin and spine
Human decay
Corpus Dei
Terminally dispelled
And it is such a ride
All your faith
All your rage
All your pain
It ain't over now
And I ain't talking about forgiveness
All your faith
All your rage
All your pain
It ain't over now
It is the cruel beast that you feed
It is your burning, yearning need to bleed
Through the Spillways
Through the Spillways of your soul
Through the Spillways...
[Guitar Solo]
It is the cruel beast that you feed
It is your burning, yearning need to bleed
Through the Spillways
Through the Spillways of your soul
Through the Spillways
Through the Spillways of your soul
Through the Spillways
Through the Spillways of your soul
Through the Spillways
Through the Spillways of your soul
Musicians

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