Lyrics Your Devoted Victim - Light This City

Your Devoted Victim

As a child
Monsters always haunted your panicked dreams
This time you’re the vampire
And though it’s cruel reality
You’re still trapped in a suffocating fantasy
Living out your most gruesome reverie
When will you let me wake you
From this painful dreaming
Don’t you realize you’re killing in your sleep
With claws of carelessness and fangs of apathy
Ripping holes in the flesh
Of the people you once esteemed
Just to smell the freshness
Of their final breaths and their blood
Yours went stale a long time ago
You’ll change your addiction
To appease your conviction
You’ve built quite the tolerance
For your previous obsession
But your new devotion
Requires some compassion
In the face of diversity
Your tolerance is lacking
Now you’ve indulged
Your feral temptations
You’ve awakened
And you say that you’ve had a vision of enlightenment
That you wish to be cleansed and saved
Wash yourself clean in a blessed stream
But there’s no such thing
And it’s never that easy
Innocence can’t be bought with a confession
You can’t just empty your sins into a pit of salvation
The guilt eats you just as you devoured your family
Why do you need a savior
When you could rescue yourself from the fear that drives your hate
You’ll change your addiction
To appease your conviction
You’ve built quite the tolerance
For your previous obsession
But your new devotion
Requires some compassion
In the face of diversity
Your tolerance is lacking
What did I do to deserve such silence
Such violence on your quest for self-destruction
You destroy us all as you feast on the last of your own blood
And taste the venom left behind
You consume my desiccated heart
And drain the consciousness from my mind
Take pity on me
Your devoted victim
Take pity on me
This sacrifice won’t set you free
Beware of the soul-saver
He’s not your friend
Why do you ask His forgiveness
I’m the one you’ve mistreated
Now ask yourself
Are you truly born again
Your pedestal reeks of death
A thick film of denial now coats your veins
There are hardly any left to penetrate
You had a life that refused to wait
For you to make another mistake
You’re bound to make another mistake