"VI. Shapeshifter" lyrics

I awake with the taste of strychnine
What devilry has brought me to life?
I saw the light fade into black
As the pain began

Oh shapeshifter, now what have you done?
This suffering is just a drop on the tongue
Why do you torment me?
Why won't you let me fly?

Now spiraling upward in stratospheric realms
Yet deeper I go in the ground
Such darkness revealed to me, wondrously perilous
I scream where the angels sing

Darkness revealed to me a crack in the wall
Through the eye of the needle
Beyond this veil of obscurity
Such beauty and horror I've found

I carry this weight as the beast of burden
Now look what you've done to me
This cursed dream of flesh
Oneiric imprisonment, a two-way mirror
Unnatural reflection

Look what you've done to me

Now spiraling upward in stratospheric realms
Yet deeper I go in the ground
Such darkness revealed to me, wondrously perilous
I scream where the angels sing

Darkness revealed to me a crack in the wall
Through the eye of the needle
Beyond this veil of obscurity
Such beauty and horror I've found

There's no way out and now I've seen it all
Reflections appear in flames and glass
So I take this pen and ink to paper—
Sweet psalm of agony
This autobiography of delirium

What have you done to me?
Why? Why won't you let me?
Why won't you let me fly?
Why? Why do you torment me?
What have you done to me?
It's always the fucking same