According to Stephany,
“‘Complacency’ personifies depression and gives it a voice by modelling it onto an ugly, vicious monster. This is the point of no return in the “rEvolve” story: that moment where you choose to let everything go and fall into depression’s arms, definitively trapped in the cycle of complacency.”
lyrics
You’ve reached a point
Where a choice has to be made
Hear my voice now
You represent all the worst sins
Come with me
Before it falls
I hear it
There in my head
I feel it
Liar, Liar!
All saved
All dead
That’s what I am
One glance
One consent
And you will only see
One light
It is my will to be
To convince you
Taking you down
In the cycle of complacency
Lie or truth
You fall to me
No rest
No silence
You join me
In the current
I hear it
I can feel you
Inside me now
Liar, liar!
They say you can't capture lightning in a bottle the second time. Someone should tell those people that Z&A is Zeus' homeboy.
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