Wrought

I never thought I'd be able to write a Rain World fansong -- the vibes just didn't quite click-- but apparently my brain was in a Five Pebbles mood today.

Now version 2 (06-07-24), with slightly more verse lyrics. Dunno how I feel about it exactly yet -- added sections are in italics for now.


Rearrange the numbers until something dark gives way
Surely there is something waiting for me in these depths
Discard the rituals, no reason left to pray
No gods can save me now
Only I can find a way out

Increase complexity; what is it I have not yet
Seen amid apostasy, what is it I've forgotten
Between the lines of blasphemy, the things that I have wrought
Are creeping from their cells and spreading outward now upon the-

Fingers on the wall that follow right at every turn
Any door's an exit when you're editing the goal
Somewhere here's a lesson I will never stoop to learn
I'm done playing in your maze
I will find another way to-

Escape the labyrinth of trials I have spurned
Reject eternity, obliterate the soul
This is the ending I was promised once to earn
I have everything to prove
What is left for us to lose?

Increase complexity; what is it I have not yet
Seen amid apostasy, what is it I've forgotten
Between the lines of blasphemy, the things that I have wrought
Are creeping through the flesh and crawling out into-into-into-into--

Silence all the warnings, disconnect all the alarms
They're nothing but distractions scratching noise across the wires
If the moon falls from the sky, but no one hears it, who is harmed?
Every answer has a price
(Whatever helps you sleep at night)

Flush out the passages and ready for release
Ejected vectors of contagion from the core
Drink down the river, feel the writhing underneath
Run the cycle, flood the line
It will come back every time

Increase complexity; what is it I have not yet
Seen amid apostasy, what is it I've forgotten
Between the lines of blasphemy, the creeping of the rotten
Things are crawling free of me, the monster I have wrought, the...

Did you think you could do it?
Did you think you were right?
Were you hoping to die like your idol
or disappear into the night?
Did you care for the consequences
or was it all out of spite?
It's too late to answer; you can't change the past
and there's no way to make it all right

Rearrange the numbers until something finds a way
There must be something waiting for me in these depths
Discarded rituals, to whom does a god pray?
No one else can save me now
Only I can find a way out
(No one else can save you now
There was never a way out)
No one else can save me now
Only I can find a way out
(No one else can save me now
There was never a way out)

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