Promises silence made
Shade blade fade out
Validity of spaces
Parading hopeful faces

A whit do they care
Flares in the sky
Portents of age
Unspoken silent rage

Destiny shallow trench
Eyes locked lovers bench
Returning astral project builder
No overlord of primordial life

Rusty lever of power
Light flickers in the tower
A mind ponders actuality
The consequences of dreams

Grind crust flood
Crucible of blood
Gently in the wind
Liquid swaying slowly

Confinement voluntary
I'll listen to your story
I know you feel alone
Cry for me on the phone

Lovelorn? Follow me
I will bring you ecstasy
Feel torn? I'm the one
Who'll be your fantasy

Rotting in your monk's cell
Afraid to see the day
Time's lost, you're not well
I'll help you find a way

You think the game is over
With you and me it's just begun
What kind of love we'll be?
Trusting hearts... or deadly?

Enshrined in darkness are these eyes
That pain me to look into
And yet I cannot look away
As their sweet seduction lures me in

The absinthe kisses burn me so,
But bring a pleasure new
Causing me to writhe beneath
This perfect stranger of shadow

The Green Fairy
With sugared breath, sweet-scented
From the Green Fairy
Comes beautiful death, demented

Voiceless words are spoken through
Screams of lustful fear
Caught between Hell and Heaven,
Inducing madness and elation

I bleed, I seethe, not a breath do I breathe
As this familiar fiend moves on
And with his leaving, I realize then
All along, I was alone

Lost and looking for an exit for the rage
In a gripping nightmare you turn another page
The serpent strikes again with its poisoned head
Morning can't come soon enough for the dreamer in your bed

Haunted forests await the foolish with their knives
Don't fall asleep, it's the twilight of your lives
Come to me - the voices say
Can't you see - we'll have our way
Come to me - the voices say
Can't you see - we'll have our way

You read the book today and nothing is the truth
All wizened you became, a symptom of lost youth
And then the magic hands have led you to your fate
With the angels of despair you had made a date

In this hopeless quest of yours, the night is their domain
You better fulfil their desires or you will lose again
You seek the fountain of ambrosia to gain eternity
But worthless is this cure if you lose serenity

My eyes, my hands, turned cold
The dreams, the hopes, I foolishly sold.
I stand here before you, for the taking
My heart now warm, no longer breaking.

And I call, upon this forbidden love
To save me, from the pain
The death of loneliness captured
Forever yours, I remain

Lying here, I looked up to a light
Whispers so sweet, almost surreal.
Falling deep, I could not fight
For the first time, I could feel.

I want this moment eternally
Surrender in my captivity.

I know you're watching, waiting to see
If I'll come to life eventually
Intently you look, I want to oblige
Wanting to give in to you

The thoughts in my head are conflicting
Who's to decide how the story ends?

I hesitate, can't take the pain again
I'm still nursing my scars
So frustrating, rejecting the one
I know will be my cure

I feel your hand on my face
Wonder if it's the last time
Bracing for the earthquake between
Me and my mind

The things I feel so complicated
Wanting you so much I hate it

We're not safe in here
We're not alone
Shut the door on the others
We'll call this home

This country was once free
In love and liberty
And then this prophet came
He made you all the same

Theocracy
Rulers for gods
Autocracy
Knowledge is dead
Plutocracy
Malevolence
Theocracy
Power they crave

They banned the daily news
The Word is all you need
Your new horizon's set
Without a page to read

You want a liberator
But first you must admit
He isn't really far
Inside your brain he lies

I was born
In a town
Where the roads were gravel, sand and old mud
I was torn
From my home
By a traveling show from south of the state

The roadways bring me pain
Under the driving rain
The tracks I leave are deep
And silently I weep

All I had
Was a song
That ran its circles all through my head
All so sad
Is this tune
Reminds I have no place to go

I walk slow
On this path
And seek a rainbow that must be gone
But it glows
In the night
The moon is just another way out

Within seconds I fall to my knees
Within my body, a love that bleeds
The sun will rise and I will finally stand
But the night will come and I will fall again
I run, I run? but the pathway narrows
I seek, I seek? but find only sorrow

Let the blood drain from the rivers
That have flooded your tainted heart
Let your arms of deceit release me
Release me from the dark

You epitomize, all that is fake
You fantasize, when I yearn to wake
Your chains tighten; I lose control
Your scent thickens; destroying my soul

I run, I run? but the pathway narrows
I seek, I seek? but find only sorrow

"Fail, fail!"? I will find the light
"Die, die!"? tonight I fight.

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