Dark Charade -

I’ve been dredging the lake of my soul

For a place I’ve never been

Scattering the last of my thoughts

To capture a whim

Oh, filled my lungs to limit

And found out 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…

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 rumours 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

Take 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 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 slight!

So, who will be the first in line?!

This was all an unfortunate mistake

Do you recall a little bit of innocence?

A time that 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?!

We’re not there

We’re not there

Don’t look at them!

Don’t look — stare with your menacing cinder eyes

At the least of us, who have given our lives

We are the same

Where the sanguine ought to be

We pale in the light we bend

Oh, enough said!

Where is the love, you liar?!