Ghost of Mother
Lingering death
Ghost on Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
Contour of her health
Twisted face upon the head
Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew deceiving
Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"
Holding her down
Channeling darkness
Hemlock for the Gods
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating inner light
Road into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher
Darkness by her side
Spoke and passed her by
Dedicated hunter
Waits to pull us under
Rose up to it's call
In his arms she'd fall
Mother light received
And a faithful servant's free
In time the hissing of her sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
And like marked pages in a diary
Everything seemed clean that is unstained
The incoherent talk of ordinary days
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and what's within a haze
What you should take and what to give
Ghost of perdition
A saint's premonition's unclear
Keeper of holy hordes
Keeper of holy whores
To see a beloved son
In despair of what's to come
If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would change
Would conviction fall
In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten morals
Where the victim is the prey
And through it all, we wore the pain
We held our own
Through the darkest of our nights
It's written in my blood
It's carved into my soul
Through the darkest of our nights
Because if you couldn't stop us then
What hope do you have now
When you dragged us though the fire
Did you really think that we would burn
We're no saviors
We're no saints
We're no martyrs
And we don't need saving
I've come too far to turn back
I've seen too much to play dead
If this is all you got then take a deep breath in
As I drown you out
I'm on the edge, I'm leaning out
But I can't see the sorrow for the pain
It's written in my blood
It's carved into my soul
The sorrow and the pain
So, you think you know the story
Did you read it in the scars
Because when you threw us to the lions
Did you really think that we would run
We're no saviors
We're no saints
We're no martyrs
And we don't need saving
I've come too far to turn back
I've seen too much to play dead
If this is all you got then take a deep breath in
Don't mistake composure
For weakness
Don't mistake my silence
For respect
Don't mistake composure for weakness
Don't mistake my silence for respect
I'll burn your world to the ground then spit on the ashes
Scorched fucking earth
As I drown you out
I've come too far to turn back
I've seen too much to play dead
If this is all you got then take a deep breath in
We've been through hell and back so who are you
To make me feel attack
I've found myself beginning to change
I'm turning into someone I can't take
I thought we could put it all to rest
Let the past go but I can't forget
Tell me all the reasons you treat me this way
When you're feeling low to make yourself okay
Tell me all the reasons you treat me this way
When you're feeling low to make yourself okay
I've been focused on a life including you to be right by my side
Pull the plug and watch me drown
All I see is your lies now
I thought we could put it all to rest
Let the past go but I can't forget
Can't get this out of my head
And all I see is this sweat on your soul
Now you're hollowed out
Tell me all the reasons you treat me this way
When you're feeling low to make yourself okay
Tell me all the reasons you treat me this way
When you're feeling low to make yourself okay
I don't see how you look at me now
Knowing I could never look at you the same
I'd rather lie to myself at night
And keep all of this hope alive
I may be nigh, you're shooting low
You took it too far, now there's nowhere left go
I may be nigh, you're shooting low
You took it too far, nowhere left go
Tell me all the reasons you treat me this way
When you're feeling low to make yourself okay
Tell me all the reasons you treat me this way
When you're feeling low to make yourself okay
You'll never be okay