Vandal

This door it swings both ways

you're so self-centered, solitary all alone

you no longer reach out to life

you run head-long straight to your own demise

Rise now to the harbour of my arms

take shelter from the storm

a howling wind, all those raging tides

the thunder clouds are closing in

Now you're seeing nothing

no not a thing

your eyes turned to dust

it's as if you've been choked to death

by ghosts in a rush of water

Akll our kisses they've dissolved into dark

snatched by vandal hands

just a madman in the moonlight

you've turned to murder - glory - lust

I gaze with terror into your void

gigantic shadows, your disembodied voice

I call out to you from a distant Eden

but there is no return to paradise

I'm deprived of my last veil of illusion

I watch you broken on the wheel of fate

all those former terrors they just lie in wait

ready to ambush on the road to ruin

closing in

This door it swings both ways

you know it's not without reason

that I've grown tired, so tired of a world

that's offered me nothing but abuse

Around here the air grows so thin

I can't breathe anymore

I can't be expected to climb up any more walls

a firm grip on my wrists

all those fingertips closing in

In a rush of water

choked on butterfly wings

I gaze with terror into the void