Raindance

All my emotion have intertwined
Or could it be that i've lost my mind?
There is a feeling of hopelessness
Now that i've cracked up my life's a mess

The pressure's building up
This world has got too much
Can't take society
You are my enemy

I'm close to the edge
And i don't want to fall
I'm losing my head
My body and soul
I'm close to the edge
And i don't want to fall
I'm losing my head
My body and soul

I can't stop shaking, i'm so afraid
Caught in a gap between night and day
Living in silence behind closed doors
I'm not the man that i was before

This grip on sanity
Is slipping out of me
The fear of facing life
There is no end in sight

If i am still that strong
Enough to just hold on
I've got to stand and fight
In this eternal night

I read the letter through a haze of alcohol
A close encounter with the weak and pitiful
Although my conscience said "she's absolutely right"
The thought was buried in the blindness of the night

I'm free at last
I'm drinking to the past
Those best-forgotten memories are fading fast

And now i'm drowning my sorrows
Here's to you
Dreams of love are finally through
And when i'm frowning my sorrows
Life is sweet
The bitter world is an echo in my heartbeat

The chair is empty where i slaved my years away
Please save your tears for someone else's rainy day
Where once your picture stood, a bottle's in it's place
Another chapter in my epic fall form grace

I can't believe
That you are so naive
To think that losing you would give me cause to grieve

I thought you really loved me
But what am i gonna do know you are gone

The nights are long
And when the stars are gone
I stagger to my sense and i carry on

Picking up the pieces of my life
I wonder why the hell i ever came here
A man without a future left to face
And nothing but a memory to embrace

Holding on to threads of sanity
Imagining the roads i could have taken
It fills me with a deepening sense of shame
And outside i can hear the pouring rain

There is a place
Where in my mind i escape
And there i understand the way i feel
And deep in this world of make-believe
I will spend my autumn years with you

Sitting in this grey and sunless world
I try to come to terms with guilty feelings
A man about to pay the final price
And nothing but his breath to sacrifice

There'll be a time
When i'll be gone from your mind
A fading ghost that soon will disappear
And deep in my would of endless pain
I must face my autumn years

I'm picking up the pieces, i'm picking up the pieces
I'm picking up the pieces, i'm picking up the pieces
Picking up the pieces of my life

There is a choice to be made here
There is a will to be known
Either you live your own life or
Follow wherever i go

Nothing's forever
And maybe i'll lonely cause you pain
Nothing's forever
Or will we remain?

So tell me what's the state of play
Do i leave or do i stay
Tell me what's the state of play
Do you love, do you love, do you love me?

Tell me your darkest of secrets
Offer no thread of a lie
For if there's a key to the future
You're looking him right in the eyes

Nothing's forever
And time always changes everything
Nothing's forever
From pauper to king

Do i leave or do i stay
Nothing's forever, forever, forever, forever
Forever and ever

You were yesterday's hero
An ordinary man of flesh and blood
Took the world on your shoulders
A hopeless crusade, and act of love

But it's a world obsessed with religion
And now you wear the face of a god
Like the words you said, you're as good as dead
Just a work of art on the wall

And that's why nobody wears a crown of thorns
Nobody cares
Nobody wears a crown of thorns anymore

Holy men talk of hunger
While standing beneath a cross of gold
And there are preachers on the tv
In their thousand dollar suits, who sell your soul

To think you died for what you believed in
Only to be exploited and used
Now you're supermen from the promised land
Just a vision of hollywood

...anymore

You showed me that there's hope for humanity
But once more you're being betrayed

So many countries torn by their idols
Too many prophets screaming for blood
And they only hear what they want to hear
When it comes to god up above