Sparks of Humanity-Elephant

[ti:Sparks of Humanity] [ar:Elephant] [al:The Extinction Paradox] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sparks of Humanity - Elephant [00:11.62]What else can I do but stay alive [00:14.55]As a vagrant I wander the wastes [00:17.49]Unhealing wounds upon my scarred heart [00:20.38]A victim bearing the brands as trophies [00:23.24]These are the years of transformation [00:26.12]Of savage decisions and necessary cruelty [00:28.97]Running out of a habit of danger [00:32.02]Crushing beauty as if to feel beautiful [00:34.92]I wish I had not rejected the few who cared [00:37.86]I miss them now like an echo of gratitude [00:40.73]How I wept as those sparks were extinguished [00:43.74]Still I dream of their faces through the dust [00:46.58]Night upon night afraid to share my pain [00:48.90] [00:49.42]Ashamed to even ask learning to be helpless [00:51.79] [00:52.36]Moonlight is harsh and full of memories [00:55.19]Still the scream remains inside [00:58.25]I am the pallid light of pressure without grace [01:01.15]Blank with despair heated and weary [01:03.97]I am a pale beast tamed by a lamb [01:06.90]Mouth stretched like the stupid yawn of chattel [01:09.93]Treating myself as fragile shattered by the wind [01:12.60]A crawling cringing daunted coward [01:15.71]Degraded by inveterate fear and retrograde guilt [01:18.46]And the sudden tragic end [01:25.47] [02:43.20]I am a blasted husk in this scorched landscape [02:45.75]None remain to cry for the dead no hope for what I once was [02:48.90]I am this fallen earth of utter loss and barren spirit [02:51.63]Dark emotions beneath an arch of hatred [02:54.51]Still I feel rhythms in the empty streets [02:57.35]As vultures circle in missing man formation [03:00.32]Searching this planet for the secret trove [03:03.21]Eager to hear the voices of the ones I loved [03:06.25]Harshness desolation coldness survival [03:09.05]Stalked by disease hunger and scarcity [03:11.96]The stubborn reek of leprous stink [03:14.97]What remains does not live [03:17.88]Likely I will not see tomorrow [03:20.73]Yet worrying about the future is another way to change it [03:23.61]Tenacious determined and adapting [03:26.52]As character is chiseled between extremes [03:29.45]Every child is the only child [03:32.27]A universe of individuals each alone [03:35.17]A warrior without weapons is a warrior still [03:38.12]Shifting growing improvising destiny