Tyler Raphael Gerena

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
It's as if there were a private apocalypse
Now I'm arid and bodiless
Everyone over there has radiance
Yet I'm entombed in a personal desert
Encircled by incessant vultures
Hooked beaks latched into my dominion
Flaying me till I resembled carrions
Vindictive buzzards feast carnivorous
Rendering prey into acrid disfigurement
Used to go unscathed
Kept to myself, which kept me safe
Until I opened myself to what lacerates
Mangled carcasses don't recuperate
By yourself, you're undisturbed
Seclusion preserves
Withdrawal conserves
Nobody can intrude or unnerve
Yeah, you're either alone and uninjured
Or alone because others disfigured
Either way, the isolation lingers

[Chorus]
Xeric xenization
Xeric xenization
Stranded as a foreigner in a lonely location
Lacking the ardent warmth of adoration
In the dryness of this xenization
Xeric xenization
Xenization
Xeric xenization

[Verse 2]
Fondness goes East and West
Yet I'm parched as a camel headed South
Exposed to this undesired drought
Wish I had what feel-good cinema puts out
Is it possible for North to reroute?
Sentiment's a corpus with a ravaged skull
Auditory ossicles were mistakenly null
Hyoid got stripped of its hull
Vertebral column got horribly mauled
Thorax became contused
Shoulder girdle broke off from the abuse
Upper limb was tragically misused
Pelvic girdle never felt more bruised
Lower limb was broadsided as if vehicular
Compromised vascular
Disrupted molecular
Impaired ocular
Traumatized both axial and appendicular
The wreckage goes beyond vernacular
Lesioned auricular by fatal scavengers

[Chorus]
Xeric xenization
Xeric xenization
Stranded as a foreigner in a lonely location
Lacking the ardent warmth of adoration
In the dryness of this xenization
Xeric xenization
Xenization
Xeric xenization

[Bridge]
Touching the driest of sand dunes
Interacting with the dusted bones that loom
The hourglass went like tumbleweed
Now this sandstorm of doom proceeds

[Chorus]
Xeric xenization
Xeric xenization
Stranded as a foreigner in a lonely location
Lacking the ardent warmth of adoration
In the dryness of this xenization
Xeric xenization
Xenization
Xeric xenization