Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague 

I hesitate to label it a memory 

There was a show of local color and I felt astray

Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency 



And you know that it's such a bitch 

When you learn to scratch that itch 

Of blatant fallibility 

Sooner to some, but eventually 

All gets pointed in the same direction 

While the human masses and their vague conceptions

Obliterate each other with impunity 

And you wonder, “what's in this for me?” 



To another abyss 

To no avail 

The search is bound to fail 

To another abyss 

To no avail 

So long ago I set sail 

And it chills me to the bone 

That I'm so far away from home 

To another abyss 



So what should I do now? What should I celebrate? 

Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate 

How can I still avow and depend upon a state 

That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare, or fate? 



And I know I can't explain 

The commotion in my brain 

Like a terrifying reality 

Deconstructed but inadequately 

All gets pointed in the same direction 

While the human masses and their vain conceptions 

Obliterate each other with impunity 

And release the weight of history 



[Chorus]



So long ago, so long ago…oh, I set sail 

And I'm struggling on the way 

And I'm waiting for the day (to another abyss) 

And I'm looking for the way back home (to another abyss) 

So far away (to another abyss) 

So far away (to another abyss) 

(to another abyss) So far away 

(to another abyss)