The Staircase

Dissolution in lucid resolve

As shadows burn holes in the wall

Empty planets and shades of the mind

Block the doorways inside

In the marrow of thoughts sleeps a lowland of grief

A labyrinth of creeper and weeds

And amongst walls of nightshade as spectrum collides

Would you recognize?

But you're not quite awake or alive

(Leave them bloodless)

In the empyrean you reside

Faces fall

In a dark dissolve

And this last dream

Is not quite as it seems

Hallowed corridors' floorboards astray

To the long foreseen close of the day

As we descend to the basement

And just fall away

A disparity drips from within

In the stillness, a single light dims

With a poisoning blindness, destruction of sight

You have turned the tide

But you're not quite awake or alive

(Leave them bloodless)

In the empyrean you reside

Faces fall

In a dark dissolve

And this last dream

Is not quite as it seems

Soaring over horizons we have to let go

And quietly whisper farewell

In a common celestial unknown

Voyagers, we arise in one great cosmic death

In the shimmering light of the grove

As the catacombs answer our call

On the night's edge

When this life ends

We can forget

All that's been said

On the night's edge (on the night's edge awake from this dream)

When this life ends (when this life ends the suffering, suffering)

We can forget (all's forgiven but please don't leave me)

All that's been said (one last look and I'm)

Breathless