DESCRIPTION:
Silent Planet's new album "Everything Was Sound" is out now!
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LYRICS:
Look straight through me - look at the nightmare. Our past is but a dream that we’re trying to escape,[01] trying to evade to erase ourselves. Look through me and see the advent of our obsessions.[02] Behold, your child, perfection - a rotting shell of atrophy.

Watching: Crowds like crows, we furiously flock to tragedy; observe the hurt then hasten back to our peaceful, quiet nests of blasphemy.
Scapegoat: Rather die and know,[03] drag your failing body in tow - witnessing the wake, conflagrate the ready oil at the stake.
Binging: The culmination of purging what our lusts have borne. We hoarded all the world to find we’d lost any semblance of ourselves.[04]

This dying dance.

I am not my own reflection. I am not myself, I am not myself. No, I am haunted by a non-existent Lover: The spectre, the ghost, the soul-starving host.[05] I am haunted by a non-existent lover.

I was gifted with the vision, but cursed to be the witness.[06]

I’ll be pale to match the walls and warped to trace the beams; flushed to fit across the floor so you can step right over me. Scouring this filthy slate these crooked bones they won’t break straight - cracked and splintered like our house, upended by that first summer squall.

Fading: so thin, you could snap me into the shape you need - gaunt enough to slide through that wedding dress. Then stitch me to a fraying matrimony embalmed inside a never-ending ceremony.[07]

I am not my own reflection. I am not myself, I am not myself. No, I am haunted by a non-existent Lover: The spectre, the ghost, the soul-starving host. I am haunted by a non-existent lover.

I was gifted with the vision but cursed to be the witness.

Invisible to me… invisible to me… invisible to me[08]

FOOTNOTES:
01 — James Joyce, Ulysses
02 — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Currency
03 — Genesis 2:17
04 — Matthew 16:26
05 — “Ana”
06 — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
07 — Anorexia is the most deadly psychiatric disorder with an estimated mortality rate of 5.86.
08 — If you or a loved one is experiencing eating disorders, please get help immediately.
For more information, visit: www.nationaleatingdisorders.org