Action and Consequence
Album: Action and Consequence
By: Midnight Epidemic
By: Midnight Epidemic
Duration
7:13
Genres
Description
This song was always intended to be an epic 7 minute song, but for about a year, we stopped the song after the third chorus. We always had the middle part (the soft piano), but we didn't write the rest of the song until only recently. The words were meant to depict the stages of a conscience after wrongdoing- Blaming others, denial, realization, anger, breakdown (as symbolized by the songs breakdown!), and finally self-hatred.
Lyrics
ACTION AND CONSEQUENCE I see the way they look at me Accusatory eyes But I can see the lies they lead, They pain they left behind When hatred is a standard In our misdemeanor lives, We beg for false sincerity To keep it all inside I've been lost before In the weight of the world I feel it pushing down on me To drag me to the floor When all we are Is nothing more Than action and consequence That's all we ever know It's too late to let go, I'm not worried, I know This will not be the ending, This will not be the death of me Now I can see what you've done You're not the innocent one With every breath I breathe, I'm enemies with everything I see We're all just saints and sinners, Saints and sinners are the same The crimes of saints are never seen, The sinners take the blame Hide the evidence Clean the fingerprints Wash the blood off of your hands, So no one ever understands It's too late to let go, I'm not worried, I know This will not be the ending, This will not be the death of me Now I can see what you've done You're not the innocent one With every breath I breathe, I'm enemies with everything I see I look around me I see myself If they're all like me, They all need help I am the victim, I am the judge, I am the suspect All in one It's too late to let go, I'm not worried, I know This will not be the ending, This will not be the death of me Now I can see what you've done You're not the innocent one With every breath I breathe, I'm enemies with everything I see This is the evidence Action and consequence We pay the price for it all No one is innocent It's only ignorance That makes us think that we are Action and consequence The only thing that's left Is for us to take the fall
