This version is the non-album version of 'In Sickness', without 'End I' preceding it and fading out into this song. I've added it so those of you who don't want to make a playlist or an album as it was intended, can just play this song individually without it having a part of another song interfering with it. And it's free if you buy the entire album, because I don't want you to pay twice for the same song.
lyrics
THE BITTER MAN’S PATH
THE CURSED LIFE HE’S HAD
LIFE’S HUNGER’S BEEN DRAINED
THE VOICE IN HIS HEAD
A SOUL, LEFT FOR DEAD
WHEN EVERYTHING’SAID
THE CORPSE THAT FEEDS THE DOG
REMAINS
IN SICKNESS I CRAVE, IN HEALTH I ASPIRE
IN MADNESS I DWELL, AND WALLOW IN MIRE
AWAY FROM THE REAL, A DESPERATE DESIRE
SO YOUR MIND HAS DECEIVED YOU
WHEN IN DOUBT CAN’T RELIEVE YOU
RETRIEVE YOU
DEAD IS THE SOUL THAT BINDS ITS DESIRE
ILL, THE INSOMNIAC DRAGGING THROUGH FIRE
DROWNED IN HIMSELF, BY SICKNESS RETAINED
THE CYNICAL SMILES, THE DEADENING STARE
NO LIFE LEFT TO LOSE, NO SOUL LEFT TO BEAR
ALL BUT HOLLOW
TURNING TO STONE, CRUMBLING TO DUST
THE AGELESS PAIN, PERVERTED BY LUST
A DEAFENING STARE, THE MADMAN’S GLARE
NO LIBERATING SCREAMS
IN MADNESS I DWELL, IN STRENGTH I REPULSE
CEREBRAL IN DEATH, THE SHALLOW CONVULSED
INSANITY CLAIMED, SILENCE RETAINED
SO YOUR MIND HAS DECEIVED YOU
WHEN IN DOUBT, CAN’T RELIEVE YOU
RELIEVE YOU
TO BE FREE FROM THE PAIN
TO PLEAD LOVE TO REMAIN
SEE MY SOUL RECLAIMED
BUT BY SICKNESS I’M RETAINED
Prog, Goth, Rock, something music-y. Definitely dark. Dark is good. If you like dark music with the odd odd time signatures thrown in with the melancholy, this is your place to be.