Lyrics Thawed Horizon - Gifts from Enola

Thawed Horizon

Forget those old and melted wings
Haven’t you still got arms and legs with which to swim?
I know it burned you once
But nothing so great feels so cool to the touch
And no one should drown out of fear of the sun
(end monologue)
There’s always something.
Whether it’s drugs, fast food, empty sex,
the dead weight of some pointless fucking celebrity or a reality television
obsession.
We’re all drowning in something: Fear--fear of the future,
fear of death;
an endless fruitless quest for success and social acceptance.
There are oceans over all of us.
Oceans of something that flood our skulls at
night and slowly erode us and wash our dreams away.
And we pour out from our
eyes when our minds just can’t hold anymore.
And we love to blame anyone,
anybody, but ourselves.
We need to think that we’re being held under,
that there’s some other hands around our throats or on the back of our heads
grabbing our ankles and pulling us down.
But I think if we were to just open
our eyes for a second, I mean wake up, and snap out of this self-deprecating
siren song that we all sing to each other, I think that we would see that those
hands are our own.
If we would look up to the surface, I think we would see
others reaching down, begging us to come up into the sun, and just breathe