Mattressroach - The Same Question Every Time Lyrics

There's a mountain on the edge of town built
Like the remains of a glutton's last meal
A path after the greenery flourishes and then stops
Where everything blossoms and suddenly doesn't
It's structure is the skeletal blueprint of architecture
That just never made it into a project
Built up by cores and peels
It doesn't grow, it doesn't feed, it doesn't develop - just a wasteland of decay

I watched it grab hold of those who didn't want
I watched it drag people under as they tried desperately
To claw at something that wouldn't crumble
Not a branch, not a patch of grass
Not a handful of dirt could withstand any weight

A plane soared miles above it
Flying thousands of feet outside of it's trajectory
But nothing could escape
No one could look at it's face and retrace their steps to a point
Where they hadn't seen what could take hold
An orbit taking control of the wings
Tugging with the strength of a dog with it's jaws around a rabbit
A spiral, it spun and spun until
I watched a nosedive full of metal and flesh
That would disturb the most nihilistic of humans
Not a parachute could save a life

It crashed
I heard scream upon scream
Pull their way out of the wreckage to be sucked back in
A vacuum letting air flow out and closing the lid repeatedly
As I looked out at this crumbled environment the pull took hold of me too
Just one look and I'd leave
Give me at least one glance

The closer I got to the plane, the stranger the air felt against my skin
My limbs grew tired and red
Stomach growling louder than the roar of the plane itself
The skin redecorated itself with tear marks and scabs
That I couldn't help but pick
Long, dirty nails digging their way into scratches
That world peel back the course, deadened skin
To reveal bloody bones and pounds of ruined flesh
An aura had developed around the crash
And a pit larger than what any of us could have imagined

It was degraded
A hole echoing with the pleas of families separated from one another
I saw a purple glow emanating
Into a crowd full of faces with bodies I couldn't pinpoint
Thunder roaring and rumbling the ground I stood on
And breaking down the bones I nimbly stood on
Two large heads framed the walls
With only their tired eyes left as a recognizable feature
Their stretched out tongues tangled around each other
Surfacing hundreds of feet - plunged deeply down each other's throats
Eyes darting in every direction with frantic motion
The teeth scraping the skin off of each other's tongues
Until they found me
With all the strength in my body
I still couldn't move as my legs had splintered into shards
That the orbit would pull in
Letting them jam into the drooling tongues
It only took one last earthquake of thunder to toss me in to the depths

And then I was stuck
With scabs plucked from raw flesh
With a head whacked against the bottom of broken metal
A pain shooting back and forth in my brain
A hunger, the only thing in my body left to strengthen
I looked around and knew there was no way out
Only to go further in
So I took my first step and felt everything in disrepair