Faith and the Muse

I'm having a weak moment A moment that may not end Lonely in my own skin Everything is changing Everything seems changed As if quietly replaced by something souless Burn It Down What happened to the spirit - with all its endless strength Did they swa

It's time to let go Time to spend some time alone Farbeit to explain what has been done and what is illusion We have outlived ourselves By many a ruined year The future ripped from a tattered page Like the violence in dream-dead eyes The reflection o

I woke up tired, I woke up down on my knees tonight My eyes were wet and I felt so dead inside A grieving fragment of myself, distorted memory Choking tears as I slam the door again I swallow rage, I taste its wisdom Nomadic fears force sanctuary I d

We are the inheritors; the evidence of heaven Descendants of a legacy gone but not forgotten We are the inheritors of the grand persuasion Descendants of its masquerade; numb but not defeated Welcome to the silent war, to the world we never hoped to

So you've returned to lengthen my shadowTo once again shatter my windows What a child will feel When the home is hell Hands loom and fall Waiting for the pen to move With arms too wide to hold just one Too small to heal the world Go on Were it but wo

Welcome my dear please take my hand It's wonderful here it's really quite grand The moment still, await the hour The Masquerade for Time's dead flowers Dancing and reeling We move beneath shadows We've hung from the ceiling All memory receding Take l

How carelessly the bound daylight caresses Oblivious to wandering eyes extinguished Free me reckless with the night Elusive scenes enkindled burst to fire Where splendor casts umbrageous twin And love sparks radiance To guide the heart from within Al