Narayama

I know we all
Have horrid visions
Where time is the gallows
Age is the axe

Tormented by fear
To take this decision
You're cursed to know
That you will be next

Mothers to your own killers
You sanctified their crime

We all walk the same way
Gathering faith and counting days
To narayama
Cycle of madness,again and again
Human inside me slain
Human inside me eventually slain.

You! You're the lord of my demise
You're the way to distant skies
You're the mercy in disguise
But don't you blame yourself, i pray.

I only pray
To god to send snow
Coldness is better
Than hunger and beasts.

Long is the way
And deep is the sorrow
But don't turn your eyes
To the corpses beneath

That's not your will nor is it mine
Don't blame yourself for god's design.

I, i am more than you can have
I am less than nothingness
I am all that has been left
A living ghost, a mother's name.

You're afraid to do your rite
More than i'm scared to die.