Every single note was a song in itself
And every little breath was a melody
And I, a painful ripping squeal
That bellowed from inside of me
Her crimson lips had softly smiled
As she sang angelically
But no more than a dissonant chord
Was the best that I could be
Oh, angel of the nightly song!
How wrapped in you I have become!
How can I go, and sing alone
Shouting like a falling drum
I can't forget your heavenly voice
That pierced the ever-present noise
Through sky and the pervasive smog
To me, whom naught but death employs.
I can't tell where I'm going
Don't know where I've been
But I feel I'm moving quickly
And I guess that's all there is
I've gone round in my head
Side to side within
Reason had too much sense
Foolishness left me behind
Walking to a dirt-road crossroad
Guess I'll say hello
Whiskey from the heavens
Daniels in my veins
Traveling to hell on that southern gothic train
Baptized my humanity in the river
Left my soul with the morning star
Guess I've lost it all
They say that those with nothing left
Have nothing left to lose
Well hell, I'm far past that
With no future, and no past
Don't mess with me, son
Or my face will be your last
Whiskey's long gone now
But the moon's still shining bright
And there's heaven to gain
But hell to pay
The brass is still warm
But I'm cold as the grave
Ashes, oh ashes
What were you before?
The flames came a-knocking
And burned down your door!
While dancing and singing
In raptured ascent
Your memories of life
Have all but been spent!
Ashes, oh ashes
And dusty dust
Were you a vehicle
Given to rust?
Perhaps once an instrument
Known well to sing?
Death gave you beauty
Where is it's sting?
Ashes, oh ashes
You've made such a mess!
You're on everything, everywhere
That you could access!
Had I known that you'd make
This place look like snow
I would not have made you
In this chateaux
Ashes, oh ashes
How you do inspire
Myself yet to build
Another fire
Though I hope that this time
You won't land on my face
Or leave your mark
ALL OVER THE PLACE!
The clock ticks across the waves of time,
I count them, watch them, wishing I could
change the course of time,
Crest, trough. Rise, sink. Tide in. Tide out.
I fell from the cliff into the waters below,
freezing, sinking; the roots I had gone.
All things blurred; salt steeping into wounds,
I'm a relic of an era long gone.
And I can't turn back time.
The storm rages on and I suffocate
in the depths, dark and deep,
dislodged out of time,
days gone. Dimmed.
And I can't turn back time.
A pyre, past lit,
A catalyst to combust or
A path, of possibilities, of
probabilities.
Time consumes, the tide comes.
The fire within, held close and tight,
The only thing to keep warmth,
Stare at the fiery beacon,
and learn to yield the inferno.
Don't let the flame consume you,
Lest it burn you back to the depths,
Don't the fire go out,
Lest time claims you forever.
Mimic the light in the distance,
so far gone and stolen away,
To a place that cannot see backwards,
But still a beacon for pathfinders,
And I'll use time instead.
Burn, contort, shape, and meld
the future to your will, and
blazing into the future is now
all I can do.
I dreamed a dream of stars and light
Shining brightly in the night
But then I saw, to my surprise
That they existed in your eyes
I had an illusion of desire
It's scarlet flames were rising higher
And soon after we took flight
You quickly vanished in the night
I gained an insight of your being
Sitting, broken, hopeless-feeling
I sat next to you, contrite
To tell you it was all alright
I bear a vision, dark and deep
It has me turning in my sleep
Your memories I'll keep and keep
As I sit to sigh and weep
Every tear I cried helped you sail farther away
Every breath I sighed filled your wings to fly
You mastered the wind and waves to leave me
You cried as the storms only pushed you along
And then You, that magnetizing, gravitating whirlpool
Leading men down to watery graves
Pulling the breath from many men's lips
And crushing them in your depths
It was difficult for me to lose you
I heard your siren's call
But I stuffed my ears and tied myself up
I knew you had nothing but death
Lastly to you, I won't say that there isn't beauty in your suffering
Only that those of us who can see it are pretty messed up
Trying desperately to find a silver lining in a thundercloud
A refreshing sea-breeze in a hurricane
Like the aurora borealis
Or the spritely fox-fire
You're a natural mystery
Filled with hidden meanings
My muses
My fates
My inspirations
I gave you all my everything
And you each of you left me wanting
How dark will it be when it dawns on us
That there is no one left who's right?
Though I was born into sin
My Savior, He died
To bring me back home once again
And Heaven did shake
And the saints they did cry
For salvation of sinners and I
Now this I know
From the scars in His hands
That He died, with me on His mind
He died then He lived, and He rose up on high
The gifted eternal is mine
Now someday soon
The Bride and the Groom
Will join in the sweet by-and-by
The angels will sing
And the trumpets will sound
As we join our dear Savior in the sky