The Strain

from Higher Roads Less Traveled by Dirty Vicar

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THE STRAIN

Normal stopped being normal, Madness encroaching every turn
Cover your face as you walk by, a new set of lessons to learn
This is how it is, This is how it’s going to be
Now you will know, what it is to cope, As the paradigm shifts you from me
Breaking your brain ‘til it drives you insane
This is the dawn of a new pain -- NOW YOU FEEL THE STRAIN

Questions build upon questions -- but answers in shorter supply
Try to go along, be the right from the wrong – but how many more have to die?
This is how we live, Sights unlike we’ve ever seen
A world shuttered in, no next of kin, dystopia bursts at the seam
Breaking your heart as the world falls apart
Chaos reigns -- NOW YOU FEEL THE STRAIN

The weeks just bleed together, no discerning of one from the next
Every town dreading sunup and sundown, Accursed crown breathes its hex
This is how it ends, locked up in our cells
Far from our friends, fearing the pestilent, on earth as it is in hell
Breaking your soul, in a self-imposed hole
Pointing our fingers in blame -- NOW YOU FEEL THE STRAIN

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from Higher Roads Less Traveled, released May 28, 2021
Music: Mule
Lyrics: Harcött

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