Shapeshifter

I have never walked away

In the sadness of this life

You know where it hurts the most

Now I tread the fearsome path

Of sweet vengeance and of tears in the dark

When the talons are fierce and the drugs are all quick

Guess you'll never find

A way out in a world of woe

I have not

And when it hurts

I will rise from the dust

I will sharpen my fangs

I will fist up my claws

And when it cries

To be out in the sun for just one day

I will lay it out and hate it

And break it

And take it

And make it

A way to remember

In the sickness of it all

The elixir in my grief

Held by ropes and by you

Tonight I'll wear the mask of the midnight

No more running away

I know now what I am

A fire upon my skin

A mistress, a man and his shame

In those discarded rhymes

I will tear through the winter woods

Let the ecstasy glow, let the rivers all flow

Let the blood drip freely of this man's disloyal veins!

And the soft candlelight

A moment of burning

Now watch it, it's burning, it's burning!

Burn with me, burn with me, burn!

Come do me wrong

Come hush my words

When all is lost and heavy are

Truth and pain

Embrace the night

Come shut the lights

Let the dream pull it's darkness over me

Once more