Dark Charade

I've been dredgin' the lake of my soul for a place I've never been

Scattering the last of my thoughts to capture a whim

Filled my lungs to limit

Found why we stay in denial

On this unclimbed stairway

Watching life go by

I'll make it easier on those of us

Who don't know that I am still here

Imagining dial tone schemes

When I lost myself in the dark charade

But I promise: My performance was flawless

I lost myself in the dark charade

And I swear I'm far more crazy than

The rumors make me out to be

Crazy

Crazier than me

All we are is all we are

Featureless with inside scars

We sink through walls and float right through it all

If all we are is what they say

We'll become them along the way

Who were we before we were ashamed?

Don't tell them the cause between fragments of all of us

Still the rain to rhyme the reason

Takes some time to find the one

To find the soul to make me God enough

That I could save us all

And do you love me now that I can save us all?

Do you love me now?

If you'll just stand over here we'll find

A place where you can waste away

Sorry it's not what you sought

But superstition is all we brought today

I'll return you to the wind for

Circumstantial assurances, love

Sold the sea to buy the ship... I think

I may have fucked up things again

Found a way to make your soul alive, to make you slide

So who will be the first in line?

This was all an unfortunate mistake

Do you recall a little bit of innocence

A time when we could still forgive and forget?

I remember plastic pills and crystal balls

Within syringes filled, filling up with

Algorithms, circuitry - this fluid frame has shown me things

I fear, I know, I believe

So who will be the first in line?

They're not there, they're not there

Don't look at them

Don't look: Stare with your menacing cinder eyes

At the least of us who've given their lives

Where the sanguine ought to be we pale in the light we bend

Oh, enough said

Where's the love, you liar?