To Toe Dead Lines

Lyrics

[intro] Breathe. Breathe You made this deadline You can meet it as you please Breathe. Please It feels like the end times It's just another week Breathe. Breathe Your heart rate is climbing Your body's begun to seize Breathe. Please If the path is best walked lonely Then why are you on your knees? [Bridge] The hands of time keep moving Slow, cruel, fine and reproving Plans will die, and that's uprooting But I don't have the strength to rest just yet The sands of time are unending (Sands of time will not end.) (Unending.) And I'm just a man stuck pretending (I'm just a man.) (So what can I do to mend this pressure?) I do what I can, but the press is descending and (This is sure to end me, but) (When I know that) I don't have the strength to best The ticking in my head [Chorus] It counts dread Each second bled undoes a loose thread Till there's none left I made my bed. Now, I lie Through teeth shining bright Soaked in peroxide "I'm doing fine." If so, then why can't I breathe? Breathe. Breathe Why are they all watching? What is it they want to see? Breathe. Please, just breathe Iambic in heart Penta-arrhythmic beat Breathe. Breathe. Breathe Toeing upon a deadline at a catatonic speed Get the hell back up on your feet It's my own damn life I'll bring it to ruin how I please The hands of time keep strangling With grip so tight, while they're wrangling What they can find to keep me hanging But the neck of the marionette's left rent [Bridge] I need to keep up appearances Well I've appeared, have I not? I rushed out the door to adorn the light that's on this spot The cogs keep turning, but the line's running dead The power's been cut off, but it can't not be met The ever-ticking deadline inside my head of Dread [Chorus] These seconds bled tighten these loose ends Right 'round my neck I made my bed. Now, I lie Through teeth blinding white Stained by peroxide "I'm doing fine." If so, then why can't I- [Outro] The end begins as soon as this has been started (These seconds bled.) The fuse is lit (Through teeth blinding white.) And so, I race it in an endless sprint But I guess it beats the alternative...