Lyrics:
VERSE 1: Hope paralyzed on a string / Tied and roped in a gallows ring / But you turned away before she could reply / Because you feared the bitter sting / That her sweet words would bring / So you let her go and within you something died // Still you watched her disappear / While shallow hope gave hope to fear / And hungry longing bled you like a knife / Stood and guessed at how the years / Could have brought this moment here / Wondering how two souls became so dead to life

CHORUS: Caught within the truth of a lie / Shadowed thoughts you can’t deny / Whispering hollow replies / Like an old friend / Try to buy one last taste / Of the life you never meant to waste / Erased in thoughtless haste / In the end

VERSE 2: Realization hurts it’s true / When the world comes crashing down on you / Dammed walls collapse and everything floods through / But come the twilight of the dawn / The only way you can move on / Is to admit that it’s all gone and start anew // And yet regrets persist / Like a forsaken bucket list / All these promises to yourself that you keep breaking / Buried deep in consciousness / The opportunities that you missed / Dissolve to wraithlike wisps of your own making

CHORUS

BRIDGE: So you traced your faded steps to where you came / Drowning in a Charybdis of burning shame / That chills you to the bone / Trailing wings of flame / The smoldering blame / A thundered eagle / Plummeting like a stone / All alone

(solo)

CHORUS x2 (additional lyrics: impossible to defy / shattered wings to fly / heartless alibis from a life on lend // just one forgiving face / searching for a time and place / to be reborn again)


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