Unfound — Summary

Some don't want to be found, Hiding in cliché cupboards, With no way out themselves, And their inner wolves go on howling, Some want to be found, With their pride and soul attached, And within dark, cold shadows, With one light for support, Some want to just end, With all their blood spills, Flooding the ground 'round them, And a note to say their curses, Some want to live, So they shone their S.O.S. With their eyes pleading, In mercy and awful blue tears, So many desires with no grant, And we're left behind with regret, Before washing away up to bloodhaven, In our lowly slumber executions.

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"Unfound" moves through four kinds of people in pain, each introduced with the same word: "Some." The first group hides and doesn't want to be found, stuck in "cliché cupboards" while their "inner wolves" keep howling. The second wants to be found and clings to pride and soul, with only "one light" in the dark. The third wants everything to end, and the imagery turns graphic: spilled blood and a note full of curses. The last group wants to live, sending out an "S.O.S." with pleading eyes and "blue tears."

The speaker seems to be watching from outside, and the final lines shift to "we," suggesting shared guilt. "So many desires with no grant" leaves the speaker and others behind with regret. The mood is bleak, heavy and mournful, with a sense that help often arrives too late. The repeated structure feels like a roll call of people who went unheard.

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