Genesis - VNV Nation

Breathing an air

Permeated, soaked in darkness

Emanating from within

I wear this chaos well

Though none should save me Resonating like a scream no one can hear

My need for innocence

The place where I began

Desperation keeps me here

The abyss becomes me I wear this chaos well

A venom on my lips, a poison?

My spirit impurified

Are these not words of heresy

In everything I choose to say

Every cry a wasted moment

With you I stand in hope

That god will save us from ourselves

Until another day is lost

Even lands we once called home

Lie undiscovered and unknown

Only heaven’s silence for an answer

And did our laughter, did our tears

Did we toil in vain in hope

Have some purpose after all?

That wisdom came from what we’d done?

Even lands we once called home

Lie undiscovered and unknown.

Only heaven’s silence for an answer.

Are these not words of heresy

A venom on my lips, a poison?

My spirit impurified

In everything I choose to say

But not the lessons learned

If I would she’d my skin, the layers left,

It would not undo what I have done

Or grant forgiveness in some better days