Symbols of Defeat Lyrics

Music by Jouni Koskela (August 2013)
Lyrics by Jouni Koskela (September 2013)

So now enough time has passed
for me to understand the gravity of this treachery
I must submit myself to admit defeat
transpire my travesties and take the fall

Revoke no reason and plead guilty
Instantiate humility by claiming the loss
At loss for words to console myself
From here on out it will only get worse

To seek solace among throes of this harrowing woe
Poses a fallacy upon the throne of moral code

The guilt trip of this kind although justified
Mutilates the mind without the help of psychic aid
Awaken symbols of defeat

While acknowledging the obvious flaws
in the patterns of my thought process
One must account the paradigms
that are my sanctuary from the helplessness

Even though I've truly earned this hell I'm in,
the self-preserving qualities take the best of me:
waving flags of retreat inscribed with symbols of accepting defeat,
loss and bereavement

[Keyboard Solo by Panu Rauhala]
[Guitar Solo by Jouni Koskela]

But as it now seems unraveling my intimacy
evokes a feeling of being undeserving of release
Awaken symbols of defeat

While acknowledging the obvious flaws
in the patterns of my thought process
One must account the paradigms
that are my sanctuary from the helplessness

Even though I've truly earned this hell I'm in,
the self-preserving qualities take the best of me:
waving flags of retreat inscribed with symbols of accepting defeat,
loss and bereavement

Here I am
where regret paves way only for the terrors
emerging from within the very confinements of who I am

[Guitar Solo by Timo Ruokola]