bleak shades become familiar within a cavernous haze eyes wide but lifeless billows of smoke decay free yet held in place bound by veins no winds can disconnect severed from the outside roots swell and seep and drain life from everything behold a change all consuming dead skin dead flesh earthly womb deathly haze so thick coiling the air once stood a hollow man once stood a ghost beyond the resurrected now the blood that pulses through me has been replaced eyes sink into this vast land and ocean forced through the earth s shell i can t see the sky anymore i can t see what s dragging me down deathly haze so thick coiling the air once stood a hollow man one stood a ghost beyond the resurrected