SPIRITBOX LYRICS

1. The Mara Effect, Pt. 1

I am never truly alone
Acceptance is slipping in, gripping limbs
Its crooked fingers intertwine
They cradle us together
A hundred years alone could never make it stop

Push it back
I cannot fit, I cannot feel
They should not see, suspended in time
And their eyes are like razors
The edges can sharpen the line

This is love, this is ordinary life
What a thrill stringing up splendid lights to paralyze

They burn to the touch, pretending at God
Listen to the blood, razor-blade eyes

I want a goddamn mess to ignite the fire
I want to lie in severance, leave me to cut my teeth
Pretending at God is a custom
The vessel to siphon my love from
Their eyes are a razor to cut me down, cut me down
This is love

This is love, this is ordinary life
What a thrill cheap enough to get caught on the edge this time

Razor-blade eyes

This is love, this is love
Make it stop, this is love
This is love, make it stop
Make it stop
This is love, this is love
Make it stop, this is love
This is love, this is love
This is love, this is love

2. 10:16

How can I feel existential in my dread?
It's my fear, I'm eternal
And how can I feel existential in my dread?
It's my fear, I'm eternal

3. The Mara Effect, Pt. 2

Teeth in crumbs like sand in my mouth
Four little fingers keep pulling them out
Four little hands, they keep pulling me, pulling me down
I try to grin, I try to scream
Please say anything, the frequencies ringing it out

Where is love, are you ordinary with me now?
Meet me down in the mud
I will call on you, when there's nothing left to say

Soon the hour will come
Look over your shoulder
There's no need to run anymore, anymore

I know I'm easily affected
Her arms are like a serpent spinning me around

Can she see?
Lights go out, when there is nothing left to say

Soon the hour will come
Look over your shoulder
There's no need to run anymore, anymore

Mirror me, I'm down here in the mud
This is ordinary in my suffering
There's no cheaper thrill
It's malevolent, can't go unaffected

Sing to me, something sweet, threatening
You cling to me, blood of ophidian
Until me, help me, I'm crippling
You won't sacrifice my love, meet me down in the mud

4. The Mara Effect, Pt. 3

I am a prisoner here
Weave the synthetic when wrapping up my wrists
I don't truly dream when you're near
Loosen aesthetics remain asphyxiated on the paint peeling back from the door
Now I can see you for what you are
She drew the shape on the floor
Now I can see the full spectrum

How can I feel existential dread?
It's my fear
I am eternal

Hurt me with your mouth, make me settle down
Whispering the words on the wind as they blow
Heartbeat in the nest, pressure on my chest
Where did all the signs of the dissonant go?
And when they tell me they pray for me and they lack a certain empathy
The enemy hits me so low
So the circles on the ground make me settle down
Hurt me, give me something from nothing
This is the lie that you come from

Meet me down in the mud
She is the mother and she loves it when we all hurt each other
Proud that her children are weak
I am a language that you have hidden in a syllable
And now you're refusing to speak

I don't even cry anymore
I don't even cry anymore

Hurt me with your mouth, make me settle down
Whispering the words on the wind as they blow
Heartbeat in the nest, pressure on my chest
Where did all the signs of the dissonant go?
And when they tell me they pray for me and they lack a certain empathy
The enemy hits me so low
So the circles on the ground make me settle down
Hurt me, give me something from nothing
This is the lie that you come from

My skin crawls, my chest heaves
Punish me

My skin crawls, my chest heaves
Punish me
My skin crawls, my chest heaves
Punish me

It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara (Mara)

It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara (Mara)

It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara
It's the effect of the Mara (Mara)

5. Everything's Eventual

Time will be with you always, you treat it with lidocaine
A willing distraction to make it feel far away
You have to say, you have to say if something's not right
Believe me, embrace the pain
Delusion isn't viable anymore

Breathe it in now breathe it out
The second the hand unwinds
An excess of freedom you've built far away in your mind
Though it's expected to feel so responsible
(Something in the water now, breathe it in now breathe it out)
(Something in the water now, breathe it in now breathe it out)
Without illusion it makes you uncomfortable
There's something in the water now
(Let your lungs fill up with doubt, breathe it in now breathe it out)
I feel the tension
There's something in the water now
(Pick your poison, spit it out, breathe it in now breathe it out)
I'm suspecting that

Time will be with you always, you treat it with lidocaine
A willing distraction to make it feel far away
You have to say, you have to say if something's not right
Believe me, embrace the pain
Delusion isn't viable anymore

I'm gutted, slipping away
No numbness lifting the fray
Hallucination, distracting from building tension
They hold me nameless, I don't even know their faces
A moment in time

(Time will be with you always)
Perfect hallucination
Distract me from building tension
Give me more insulation
I don't even know their faces
(Time will be with you always)
Perfect hallucination
Distract me from building tension
Give me more insulation
I don't even know their faces

Time will be with you always, you treat it with lidocaine
A willing distraction to make it feel far away
You have to say, you have to say
You have to say, you have to say
You have to say, delusion isn't viable anymore

Hallucination
Distracting from building tension
They hold me nameless
I don't even know their faces

6. Aphids

There is a bird of my sin on the windowsill
Crashing up against my shelter
I hate the hollowed out bones and they fracture
The stranger tells me back down

The sparrow follows the thread
I try to remain untangled
I feel the leech in my throat
I'm holding it up to a blue flame
Close the deck on the parasite
Cut the cards and blow out the flame
Follow the thread to the other side
There is blood in the remedy
There is blood in the remedy

And this where I cut my teeth
To fix the broken thing in me
If there's a shadow underneath
The phantom is the fallacy

The oil is separate
It covers against the blue flame
My words are now useless
Crushing me under the weight
The stranger tells me it's over
Look at the burns on your finger tips
Repetition is dead
Looking for proof in the chrysalis

And now you've rendered me voiceless
Sparrow bones
And my wings clipped

I know there's blood in the oil
I know there's blood in the oil
Close the deck
Cut my teeth
The phantom is a fallacy

The sparrow follows the thread
I try to remain untangled
Now I feel the leech in my throat
I'm holding it up to a blue flame
The oil is separate
It covers against the blue flame
My repetition is dead
Looking for proof in the chrysalis

Bird of sin on my windowsill
Brushing up against my shelter
Hollow bones and they fracture
Drag me down and I suffer
The leeches down my throat
I'm trying to take my hold onto the blue flame
Cut the parasite

7. The Beauty of Suffering

You say the pain will liberate me
You turn my body into knots, and tell me it's a blessing
You say you love me in this shape
That there is beauty in my suffering

I wonder, would I stay if you asked for it?
You still create the shape, and I ask for it

I gave my heart in pieces
Please release me, I'm tired
Don't try to pacify me
Please release me, I'm tired

I'm slipping away
No discipline, just let me be
And now my body starts to worry
Put down the words, I will not hesitate
This is your chance, make me relatable
Knock me down with your false intentions
It turns to ash in my mouth
I need you gone, I beg you to release me

Now, I turn my body into something
Into the shape you find so trusting
I could never be that shape
You caught me slipping

Farther down in madness
Echo chamber (Nod your)
Leave my body in peace
No need to pacify me
Nod your head yes
The pain will set you free

I gave my heart in pieces
Please release me, I'm tired
Don't try to pacify me
Please release me, I'm tired
(Please release me, I'm tired)

Leave my body in peace
No need to pacify me
Leave my body in peace
No need to pacify me

You find escape in the reverie
This is the beauty of suffering
You find escape in the reverie
This is the beauty of suffering

I love you, I always will
My heart is always still
I love you, I always will
My heart is always still

Please release me, I'm tired
(You find the strength in the reverie)
Please release me, I'm tired
(This is the beauty of suffering)
Please release me, I'm tired
(You find the strength in the reverie)
Please release me, I'm tired
(This is the beauty of suffering)







SPIRITBOX LYRICS