I sometimes don't want to believe that all we were has come to this all my hopes, all your promises so easily dismissed you hear what you want to hear and see what you want to see and all these things are all you want and none of them are me 

this feeling is fading, this promise lied, this soul has nothing to feel inside these friends forget, these stars will fall, these words mean nothing to you at all this child is abandoned, this dark burns clear, the one who believed in me disappears this love is over, this endless dread is all i have left to feel instead 

oh, it grows upon you like a raven perched above your door it meets you face to face but always leaves you face down on the floor never summon what you cannot dismiss it goes on with every kiss like shadows of all that came before it stays with you forevermore

i wander through the streets, listen to a city breathing see the light nighttime writhe beneath the neon ground condemning, they all move in line against the grain i press my fingers to my ears, can't seem to drive out the sound 

i couldn't if i tried break free from what i keep inside her words become my underground when the streets of the city are paved with time these hands hold empty space and push me so far and out of place where names are not remembered, in a city it's just another face

i'm going down on my knees for the last time to make you see i'm open wide before you know, who do you want me to be?  

i'm walking in your shadow in the sands of heaven's door i bury myself in the riverbed where so long ago i washed upon your shore i slip beneath your waters, dragged down by the stone i breathe in winter and wait for the kindly ones to come and take me home  

i could be all that i am, i should be all that you want i could be all that you see, if i am anyone but me

their words are written in stone, their faces adorned with gold i've been to their sages and the wisdom of ages but i've never been this cold with cheshire cat smiles they shattered this trust i used to have gold but it soon became dust i don't believe in god, i don't believe in love, but i've always believed in you  

from a distance i feel the fabrics open in down in your eyes holding close, holding fast, but always holding me down in an instant i try to open these wings unlearning to fly face up to the rain asleep in the stale underground 

their words are written in stone, their faces adorned with gold i've been to their sages and the wisdom of ages but i've never been this cold with all that you love, and all that you need no matter how long you try to believe in the dreams that won't come and the words that won't go either way, in the end you know

one foot on the staircase, one foot on the plains either way i'll be waiting for you in the sun and the rain i've never been this high, i've never slipped this low the things that i dream, the dreams that i love are the only things left that you'll never know

it's a change, it's a turn it's the wrong way in a city paved with time it's a heart, it's a burn, it's a reason and all the blame was mine it's a night, it's a time for breaking it's a throb in a soul unfurled it's a loss, it's a bridge of silence from here to the end of the world 

and all we were burns slowly in dying fires and falling trees and we become just one more reaching hand slipped deep into the sea these fading eyes can't catch the light so far in front of me that shines from all you tried to hold and throbs forth to bury me it's a sin, it's a lie, holy water that never removes the stains it's a drug, it's a fix, it's a mainline of the purest form of pain it's a word it's a page of promises that are always broken (but always remain) it's a drown at the hands of poseidon, it will never be, it will never be the same...

render me in shadow, hold me in the face of a girl when the marching men are drawing shades around your useless empty world no love no more no reasons for no hope no light no open doors no words no consequences no truth no pride no elegances 

the storm of pain in coming soon to make these lies pull down the moon all that you love sets down below and drowning fast in the undertow on comet's tails we're breaking free from what's to come, from what will be we know just where we want to go, for all of you you'll never know

(she will be more than all you are, she'll never see your falling star) where no shadows block the sun where no hope is lost, where no rivers run where the sun blooms for just one day where we find the place, a winter hideway forevermore I live this day

i let my ashen graces down, and pull my heart up from the ground just for one chance to shine brighter than a thousand suns for love, for truth that now is gone i once was lost, but now am found was blind but now i see 

and for rhiannon is my elation and for the lost ones there is nothing and for rhiannon is my elation and for the father there is nothing..

i turn to the light and open the door but cannot break the static sound and all my actions amount to nothing whether giving up, or giving in, or never coming down all the dreams i had to give were all the things you disdained what used to be mine became yours in the end what used to be pure had become so murrain 

and the spirit of hope lies hopelessly still the hurting will heal but the heart never will the dreams that i share are the first things they take sometimes i believe i was god's first mistake 

i don't believe in progress, i don't believe in change i don't have anything you'd want to steal i don't believe in god, i don't believe in love and i don't believe i can feel with cheshire cat smiles she shattered this trust we used to have gold but it soon became dust set course on the waves and unfurled my sails what used to be hope, just one more reason to fail 

and the spirit of hope lies hopelessly still and the hurting will heal but this heart never will and the dreams that i share they are the first thing they take sometimes i believe i was god's first mistake...

"you surround me in a tower of gold you gave me dreams to dream and helped them to unfold you saved me from myself and freed me from the stone you are the bluest ruin I have ever known. You took these broken wings and taught them how to fly you gave me dreams to dream and gave me reasons why you made me believe in you, you made me call you home you are the bluest ruin i have ever known"

 dark frozen stares... across the aching sea of neverwhere through the looking glass the sorrow swells her bold pronouncement and her tale to tell this is the (there is no) easy way out through the Tower to the razor's shout she spins the web around me and pulls me to my knees she sets ablaze the Giving Tree and throws it to the sea 

"you submerge me in your static gaze you leave me burning in the shimmering haze you are the one who leaves me clawing down alone you are the bluest ruin i have ever known you inspire me in ways you cannot see and when i let go of my failings you'll be there to remind me i'll drown in sorrow's wake, dragged down by the stone you are the bluest ruin i have ever known"

the dream is over the time is gone this fear is real and moving on this moon is cold the sea is dead the hope is gone and bleeding red this world is empty this faith is wrong this truth is broken and holding on this child is waiting so dark and deep to lay down beside you and lay me down to sleep

are you boiling water?