Spoils Lyrics - Fortress - Protest The Hero

And now with the art of casting names upon its being 

The humans claimed dominion over every living fucking thing 

Proud as a purpose they became to walk the earth 

As they arraigned the common creatures 

Caught within the corpus, cursed, conscious human brain x2 

Every word that's ever written will fall short of its intent 

Even sung or spoke or screamed, they will betray what they have meant 

They will betray what they have meant x2 

Language is the heart's lament 

A weak attempt to circumvent the loneliness inherent 

In the search for permanence 

Like all the future ghosts who scratch their names in wet cement 

Demeaning meaning as they shout out at the emptiness x2 

Abstraction is the stake between the animal and animus 

Deflesh the word as scourge of human destiny 

Behold the world in other people, life is charity