Maddening Swarm - Light This City

It may feel like it’s too much to handle

But it’s not time yet

Your body operates

Automatic

Like a breathless engine

It shines in the swimming haze and heat

While your mind

Like a swarm of insects in a gust of wind

Crumbles and reassembles

Forgetting its original

Innocent form

No

It’s not the time

Don’t let your frantic mind

Run you away

From me

No no no

It’s not the time

You’ll be alright

Don’t let your frantic mind

In our oldest

Wisest years

We’ll laugh

Looking back

At our losses

Yours

The self-control you longed to

Trust

Mine

Any adequate words to dissolve the

Mounting pressure moment

And in our tissue-paper skin

We’ll mock the frailties of youth

And cherish the steel-solid minds

We acquired in time

No

It’s not the time

Don’t let your frantic mind

Run you away

From me

No no no

It’s not the time

You’ll be alright

Don’t let your frantic mind

I know life starts in slow motion

And ends in a fast forward flash

When all you want to do is rewind

So you can relive

Those days we spent

Never wondering about how it all will end

Remember the languid

Mesmerizing

Hours we spent

Spellbound

Dreaming of the life we lead

Now

Don’t be disillusioned

Dreams and reality may

Never synchronize

But someday

We’ll get away

With a perfect day

And we’ll laugh

Looking back

The machine hums to the whine

Of the cloud

The swarm

No louder than before

When did it become

The anthem of impending tragedy

A maddening melody building

In shrill intensity

Maybe it’s just a new song to sing us to sleep

It’s not going to end the way you think