Under an eclipse of ever-rising feeling   Moving faster through my veins   And bleeding out the sun   That’s beating down our necks   And burning my eyes   If this is a crutch for the weak   Then I am the least of these   So cut off my arms and break my legs   So I don’t feel this anymore   Choking on all of the feeling   That I’m swallowing in    Tasting the failure on my lips   That I’ve lead in   And this is my last chance for survival   A last ditch effort to cure my ache   We’re so vain aren’t we?   We’re so proud and empty   We’re left leaning on our only intrigue   The lies that I’ve told won’t bury us whole   They won’t find us time   This is the end of the story that I can forget   This goes far beyond our loyalties   And we feign as a shield   That’s teeming with guilt and resonance   But we held our heads so high   We have not yet defeated failure