Hallway
Echoes of Exclusion: Navigating the Hallways of Forgotten Time
Lyrics
Here in this passage with the mist up to
Entering a mist-covered passage
My knees - a frightened
Feeling fear with the mist reaching knees
Savage pounding panels
Frantically hitting panels in a savage manner
I beat on every door I see
Attempting to open every door encountered
But I get no answer
Receiving no response despite the efforts
Yet I know I'm not alone cos I hear
Perceiving laughter, indicating company
Laughter and I know it's all for me
Realizing the laughter is directed at oneself
And I know there's no returning because
Understanding there's no turning back
The gods must be appeased
Believing in the necessity to appease gods
And, of the millions, they nominated me
Being chosen among millions by the gods
And I'll walk 'til they forget as we'd forget
Walking until forgotten, akin to fading memories
I'm all theirs to disrepect and I plea guilty
Accepting disrespect and guilt
Call it 'murder by exclusion'
Referring to exclusion as a form of murder
Call it criminal neglect
Labeling the situation as criminal neglect
Just how many false confessions
Questioning the number of false confessions needed
Will it take me? Must I climb the mountain?
Contemplating the difficulty of the journey
Must I cry against a wall?
Considering emotional expression against an unresponsive barrier
Am I doomed to stay marooned
Feeling stranded in a timeless hall
Here in this hall
Metaphorically shipwrecked in a desolate space
Shipwrecked in this gaping hole in time
Reflecting on a museum forever closed
In this lost museum that's
Describing the museum as a place where nothing dies
Forever closed inside
Elaborating on the closure and isolation
A place where nothing dies, it only crumbles
Highlighting the eternal decay of things
The statues turn their backs and just
Depicting statues turning away and disintegrating
Collapse in piles of ashes
Describing the aftermath as piles of ashes
Fragments, remnants, ruins, trash
Listing the remnants as fragments, ruins, and trash
They torched this temple years
Revealing the destruction of a temple in the past
Ago but they left
Noting the preservation of ghosts in glowing coals
The ghosts to moan on glowing coals
Emphasizing moaning ghosts in a hall
In a hall that leads to a hall
Describing a recursive series of halls
That leads to a hall that leads to a hall
Emphasizing the cyclical nature of the situation
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