Haken - Puzzle Box lyrics

(Latent) No escape (Memories) I navigate
(Forming) Through my cave
(Deep inside of me)

(Dormant) Beneath the skin
(Barren) They keep us in
(Visceral) Night and day
(Senses now subdued)

Parasite, leech upon the guilt
From all my wrongs
Lead me on the pathway to the core
Paralyzed, staring through the shadows
On the wall unable to solve this puzzle box

The journey's long, the shadows dance around
The answer lies beyond the fourth wall
My future days are etched into my skull
Hanging ever by a tethered body
Mind and soul

Parasite, leech upon the guilt
From all my wrongs
Lead me on the pathway to the core
Paralyzed, staring through the shadows
On the wall unable to solve this puzzle box

Truth or deception?
I lose all perception inside

A fleeting sense of self-worth (Self-worth)
Evaporates into nothingness (Nothing)
A tepid grip on myself (Myself)
Melts away to oblivion (Away)

Shadows on the wall dance around
Reflections in the amber to be found
A puppet on a string soon unwound
The truth inside the cave soon to be unbound

The path beyond the mountain led me here
The answer crystallized in history
But now the cracks of time begin to show
We lift the veil on what the future holds

The torture of entrapment ever grows
And now I'm waiting for the afterglow
A beast inside of me awakening
Alas the consequences of my sins

Shadows on the wall dance around (Parasites)
Reflections in the amber to be found
(As thick as thieves)
A puppet on a string soon unwound (Paralyzed)
The truth inside the cave soon to be unbound
(My golden wings)

Bouncing off the walls
Latent memories (Erupting)
Pulling at the cord
Earth beneath my feet (Is trembling)
Lightning cracks the sky
Wakening the beast (Inside me)
Rawness in his eyes
Reeking stench of fear (And regret)

Bouncing off the walls
(Cause and consequence)
Latent memories erupting (Show me reverence)
Pulling at the cord (Fate or circumstance?)
Earth beneath my feet is trembling
(I feel severance) lightning cracks the sky
(Lighting cracks the sky)
Wakening the beast inside me (Eyes intensify)
Rawness in his eyes
(I will stay trapped inside)
Reeking stench of fear and regret
(Until the cells divide)

How can truth set us free when
Lies are all we have?
How can time heal us when
Our days are running out?

How can truth set us free when
Lies are all we have?
How can time heal us when
Our days are running out?