Awake

Man down

This hardened shell is broken

My fate

Is bound to what I've done

Regrets

I shuffle down the hallway

Precious time

It's all gone overboard

Here is your calm down

Here is your calm down pill

I'll never be the same

It'll never be the same

With eyes wide open

My body's floating down the river

This live

What have I confined you for?

It's all inside

It's all in silence

When the raven gets its way

A million thoughts are swept away

And then you leave it all

You leave it all behind

And maybe next time we'll meet again

And maybe I'll be less of a bitter man

When I feel more

I refuse to pay the ferryman

I'm so attached to my temple

He has to burn it down to get me

Ebony demon, shriek all you want

I'm not tagging along

The shade, the burning blackness

It is my protector

Fear before the fall

I can't grasp it all

But at least I'm trying

A light, a smoldering cinder

Getting colder, ashen

And letting all this go

I'm not letting go

I'm not really done here

I won't let

I won't let go

Life's to short to be wrong

And maybe next time we'll meet again

And maybe I'll be less of a bitter man

And if I could do it all over again

I'd be the same man all over again

When I feel more