You flick the pages of your book
Trying to find the right line
Then there it is that famous quote
That explains away your lies
You flip a coin
You laugh out loud
As it's lost
Acid rain falling down
Burns my skin without a sound
It peels my soul, it flays my heart
It's simply tearing me apart
My only wish won't come true
As it chases after you
It's only dust on an empty road
With withered dreams and bitter cold
Like a trick
You disappear
And from the sky
Acid rain falling down
Burns my skin without a sound
It peels my soul, it flays my heart
It's simply tearing me apart
Acid rain falling down
Burns my skin without a sound
It peels my soul, it flays my heart
It's simply tearing me apart
Acid rain
The blood on your lips
Drips, red honey slips into a pool
The lies that you tell
Corrupt my heart
Infect my soul
Silence spills
Like a wave in the dark
The fills you play
Black and white
The final scene - crying
And you're gone
The shock in your eyes
Lies, the wailing cries
Of a tragic fool
Your game hides the truth
Dice, playing cards
Mirrored in the roof
You cheat with the best
When you're caught you're aloof
An avalanche
That seals
A silent shroud
The noise has gone
All that's left - speechless
An empty shell
Love's last tears
Have fallen down
From your cheek
The loaded words
Ricochet
Around the room
Exotic birds
Against the glass - goodbye
Gone by noon
The light slips through
You're alone in your room
With your secrets and pain
And it's happening again
And all the stars are shards of glass
As they fall and you hide till they pass
So sad, helpless you
The dream has gone
And the pictures hang wrong
And you're buried in your books
And your mirror's off the hook
And outside it's eternal night
And you're trapped in the wave of your mind
You're so sad, helpless you
So sad, helpless you
And you're locking all the doors
As you sharpened your claws
And your eyes turn red
As you feed on the dead
And you cry as you slide away
In the light see the sign of your decay
So goodbye, we'll deny your prey
Your desires and lusts have locked you away
So sad, helpless you
So sad, helpless you
So sad
So sad
So sad
So sad, helpless you
The spring arrives in shrouds and hoods
Darkness lingers in the woods
The flowers wither as they bud
The grass is browner than the mud
The swallow doesn't reach his tune
He left the South, arrived too soon
But is it not the month of May
With dancing girls and bales of hay
Pollen swollen from honeyed bees
Tortoise shells and ears of seed
But stretched across a bloody sky
There's angels that are born to die
Calamities and all amiss
In beauty's metamorphosis
But shadows reach across the lawn
Into the throats of the forlorn
They pull at hair, they punch your teeth
Come from above and from beneath
They bring down branches from the trees
They make you buckle at the knees
They slip you pills that kill your sleep
They spin you tales that make you weep
They push you into darkened sheds
They plant odd thoughts into your head
They kiss your lovers in full view
They take the lies and make them true
They wish for things that they don't need
And welcome Mephistopheles
Rusting hinges on the gates
Shadows cast unsightly shapes
They disappear when you pursue
Leave you there without a clue
Something lingers on your porch
You draw the curtain and drop your torch
A face stares back that cannot be
Resembling your sweet Marie
Her life you took the day before
And buried deep beneath the floor
Hallucinations fly like spears
Voices penetrate your ears
And to the sound of guilty chants
You slip into the devil's dance
On a list, underlined, there's a name
I don't recognize
The sugar fix, the chemicals killing me
As I say goodbye
In the mist, disappear, like a ghost
It felt like I had died
It's confidence, in yourself, finally
That made you decide
Left me here, on the wind, thanks to you
No chance to survive
I'm a wreck, a faded light, flickering
Extinguishing my life
But I shrug it off like drops of rain
Sorry that you can't control
Manipulate the pain you've caused
On the roadmap to my soul
Woke up late, it's all the same, the sun has gone
Oh, I can't find my clothes
They're on the floor, in a heap, by the sink
I've nowhere to go
Anyway, what's the point, now you've gone
I am just alone
I pick it up, I take a chance, on myself
Trying not to cry
I go to sleep, I hate the dreams, the storyline
Surrounded by the night
Haunting me, pushing me, telling me
A past that I'll deny
I'm frightened by the heart's extremes
How love just takes you down
All you do is shout at stars
And watch them turn to dark
The hurt echoes through my fragile bones
Cancelled journey to a place
Where everything you dreamed came true
On the roadmap to my soul
On the roadmap to my soul
On the roadmap to my soul
Through the night rain
Wheels spin roads crack
Blackness all 'round
We have to break through
To break through
Journey must end
Time will run out
Bones snap, skin slips
Suddenly you're home
You are home
In the comfort of
The consequence
You forged
Tables are turned
All their power gone
We wreak revenge
On the despot's souls
On their souls
When they cry out (I can't stay here)
We won't hear them (You are my pain)
They can't hurt us (Days for leaving)
They can't harm us now (Night has sold you)
Harm us now
As we peacefully
Nullify
The pain
On judgement day
We'll see you all again
The end is near
You taste the poison in the air
There's no one here
You can hardly move out of your chair
Encroaching shadows everywhere
Inside your head
As winter cracks
And tells you it will never leave
So don't go back
There's nothing left here to retrieve
Resignation sneers at a reprieve
Black and white the blinding light
Throws reason to the dogs
Misinterpret, find a culprit
And sacrifice them to their gods
The belt is tight
The veins are raised below your skin
An awful sight
All paid up but can't get in
You're either too fat or too thin
No in-between
You slink away
And take it out on someone new
They're in your way
You beat them till they're black and blue
The only thing that you could do
Saris turbans beards suburban
Different faces everywhere
Exotic spices fuel your vices
As you spiral down to your despair
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Black and white
Seasons change and rearrange
The textures in the trees
Then you arrive like bright sunlight
And bring me to my knees
I question all my foolish acts
But answers never come
I realize that my demise
Is here and I'm undone
This is the folly of the soul
As victims we are one
When all good reason leaves the room
And lands me here with you
Better judgement flown away
I have you through and through
No matter what the seasons tell
Of warnings and of change
My fate is not for me to say
Unable to arrange
This is the folly of the soul
As victims we are saved
Lover, tell the world
Break the news
Strike a match
Light the fuse
The shadow dancing on your cheek
Hides the truth in your eyes
I see reality
When you lie
Lover, I can't bear
To see your face
Or hear your voice
What a waste
I gave you everything I had
Shed my skin till I was raw
Go betray me now
Slam the door
I wrote a song
To get me through
Every single word, lover
I sang was true
I sacrificed a thousand lives
For your heart, for your kiss
Of all the girls in the world
It's you I miss
And when I reflect on
All those easy days
All those breezy days
All those happy days
I collapse upon the thought
Of losing you (losing)
Lover
Of losing you (losing)
Lover
Of losing you (losing)
Lover
Of losing you (losing)
Peace will come to those that wait
Silently outside the gate
Desperately they look around
Trying not to make a sound
Still they come
Still they come
Still they come
They come
They come
Finally they're by the door
Hoping not to feel their claws
Hear them being dragged away
Still they're back another day
Tears will come
Tears will come
Tears will come
Will come
Will come
Demons seem to come and go
When you're sad they seem to know
Close your eyes, they'll go away
Don't look back to yesterday
Still they come
Still they come
Still they come
They come
They come
Nothing wrong with feeling down
Replace your smile with a frown
Drink your tears, feel the pain
Soon you'll be alive again
Tears they come
Tears they come
Tears they come
They come
They come