CARAPACE Songtext
von Guard Dog

In lightless crawlspace
Along the walls
Between breath and burden
Warped into a panicked husk

This shell, my sentence
Four walls as my grave
I flinch like a roach in sunlight
Only shadow folded into my being


I am merely an echo
Abandoned by mankind
Lost soul and purposeless
Buried deep within my own mind

In dust and shame
As a carapace too ghastly

My hymnal spit
Sings a life entombed in chitin

Lost teeth affixed
Into prayer no god can translate