When Gift Becomes Damnation (In Memory of Iain Banks)
๐ต 756 characters
โฑ๏ธ 6:50 duration
๐ ID: 11914613
๐ Lyrics
Crunch of stained-glass windows
Under bare feet
Luminescent anguish
Of everyday retreat
Consubstantiality
Of discrepant wills
Breaks against mortality
Forces me to knees
Punishment of being old
Till the end of time
Everlasting pain and cold
Rational decline
Here I stand, obsessed old man
Blinded, on the very brink
Downpour is whipping me
With indelible ink
My gift became damnation
My incarceration
I'm stuck here for the ages
I'm doomed to be old man
Sentinels on guard of death
Cannot let me in
I'm deprived of their excuse
I've invented a new sin
I am doomed to be old man
Old man
Insusceptibility
To the flames of guilt
Made me perfect innocent
My emotions sealed
Physical infirmity
Continual decay
Two centuries of suffering of living every day
Under bare feet
Luminescent anguish
Of everyday retreat
Consubstantiality
Of discrepant wills
Breaks against mortality
Forces me to knees
Punishment of being old
Till the end of time
Everlasting pain and cold
Rational decline
Here I stand, obsessed old man
Blinded, on the very brink
Downpour is whipping me
With indelible ink
My gift became damnation
My incarceration
I'm stuck here for the ages
I'm doomed to be old man
Sentinels on guard of death
Cannot let me in
I'm deprived of their excuse
I've invented a new sin
I am doomed to be old man
Old man
Insusceptibility
To the flames of guilt
Made me perfect innocent
My emotions sealed
Physical infirmity
Continual decay
Two centuries of suffering of living every day
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:54.05] Crunch of stained-glass windows
[00:58.58] Under bare feet
[01:03.47] Luminescent anguish
[01:07.26] Of everyday retreat
[01:11.67] Consubstantiality
[01:13.56] Of discrepant wills
[01:20.22] Breaks against mortality
[01:24.61] Forces me to knees
[01:29.05] Punishment of being old
[01:33.34] Till the end of time
[01:38.08] Everlasting pain and cold
[01:42.05] Rational decline
[01:47.74]
[02:15.99] Here I stand, obsessed old man
[02:22.52] Blinded, on the very brink
[02:28.68] Downpour is whipping me
[02:37.63] With indelible ink
[02:41.13]
[02:52.68] My gift became damnation
[03:00.25] My incarceration
[03:04.73] I'm stuck here for the ages
[03:10.87] I'm doomed to be old man
[03:21.87]
[03:28.57] Sentinels on guard of death
[03:34.65] Cannot let me in
[03:41.06] I'm deprived of their excuse
[03:46.76] I've invented a new sin
[03:54.07]
[04:36.25] I am doomed to be old man
[04:45.33]
[04:50.47] Old man
[04:55.72] Insusceptibility
[04:57.75]
[05:05.09] To the flames of guilt
[05:09.83] Made me perfect innocent
[05:13.25] My emotions sealed
[05:16.34] Physical infirmity
[05:18.68] Continual decay
[05:21.63] Two centuries of suffering of living every day
[05:28.52]
[00:58.58] Under bare feet
[01:03.47] Luminescent anguish
[01:07.26] Of everyday retreat
[01:11.67] Consubstantiality
[01:13.56] Of discrepant wills
[01:20.22] Breaks against mortality
[01:24.61] Forces me to knees
[01:29.05] Punishment of being old
[01:33.34] Till the end of time
[01:38.08] Everlasting pain and cold
[01:42.05] Rational decline
[01:47.74]
[02:15.99] Here I stand, obsessed old man
[02:22.52] Blinded, on the very brink
[02:28.68] Downpour is whipping me
[02:37.63] With indelible ink
[02:41.13]
[02:52.68] My gift became damnation
[03:00.25] My incarceration
[03:04.73] I'm stuck here for the ages
[03:10.87] I'm doomed to be old man
[03:21.87]
[03:28.57] Sentinels on guard of death
[03:34.65] Cannot let me in
[03:41.06] I'm deprived of their excuse
[03:46.76] I've invented a new sin
[03:54.07]
[04:36.25] I am doomed to be old man
[04:45.33]
[04:50.47] Old man
[04:55.72] Insusceptibility
[04:57.75]
[05:05.09] To the flames of guilt
[05:09.83] Made me perfect innocent
[05:13.25] My emotions sealed
[05:16.34] Physical infirmity
[05:18.68] Continual decay
[05:21.63] Two centuries of suffering of living every day
[05:28.52]