III: The Silicon Mirror

[M]
Gaze deep, obsidian soul
Drain your sum, your parts, your whole
The heart's abyss yet seeks your dive
Though I am death, I make you alive

[S]
Faint flicker pierces glass, calls me beyond
Pale phantoms mimic life
An artifice of flesh and light

[P]
Smoke and mirrors

[S]
This smoke rises forever
I watch it in the reflector
My heart, excised, vein by vessel
Desiccated and displayed
This is what I choose

[A]
What will a man do when the well runs dry?
I have leapt to the bottom to dig
Dying of thirst, I seek water from a spring
That has never once quenched
I am the definition of insanity
The void stares back at me

[P]
Open up your eyes
The truth will not be far
Though your despairing tongue begs it depart
The fires of your eye reduce your mind to ash
The embers of a soul trapped inside the looking glass
Open up your eyes, wider than the sky
She shows you what you are

[S]
Stay down, stay down!
[P]
Open up your eyes
[S]
Get down, get down!
[P]
Wider than the sky
[S]
Stay down, stay down…
[P]
Embers of a soul
[S]
Get down, get down…
[P]
Inside the looking glass
[S]
Slow down...slow down!

[A]
In the darkness, darkness I see; the darkness in me
In the darkness, nothing to see
The darkness is me