Fen - Labyrinthine Echoes lyrics

We see but cannot see
We hear but cannot hear
What we face with our senses
Is the purest illusion
Transmissions from a realm of the unknowable

All is filtered through
The withered substrate
Of perceptions worn thin like gauze
Rotting through as a death-shroud
Stained with corpse-dust

When the last of us ceases to trust
All that is perceived, all that is known
All that is experienced
Where then for a mind that
Cracks free of it's moorings?

To the maze of mеmory we thus retreat
Inwards and downwards
To thе fog of time long dead
And the straining patterns that
Fail to contain things once known
Things once seen and felt
And feared and ignored

Once again, we turn away and deny

Echoes reverberate in a chaotic mire of
Unreasoning
Again and again etched in decaying blood
Reverberating in flesh and spoiled
By the crushing
Glacial cascade of the hourglass

We lie to ourselves
Crushed by the benediction of our own
Weakness as we age and fail
Tendrils of betrayal a final prison

We lie to ourselves