"Affliction"

(taken from the split-LP “Das Geisterhaus”, 2021)

Slice your skin, you love the pain
Carve the flesh, just a little deeper
Your suffering makes you feel alive
On this purity you will thrive

Again you feel this urge to lose control
Bleeding hands and nails tear at your soul
There's something waiting deep inside
Turn the inside out and cast the world aside, yeah

Just when you feel the affliction
You notice you are still here
So you take a deep breath and let go
Just to become aware of living

And when the pain has faded away
Suddenly, common life again gets pale
Each scar on your skin tells its own tale
A story of what lies beyond the veil

(Ron, written with bleeding hands, in the year 2020)