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SKYCLAD lyrics : "Building A Ruin"

[time: 03:55]
[Lyrics: Martin Walkyier]
[Music: Steve Ramsey]


My life is a sentence that carries no pardon,
I can't put you out of my misery now,

So stunned by beauty of this madhouse garden -
I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow).


This body's a temple - a shoddy construction,
I'm digging my grave - while boring the well,
I'm paving a path to my own self destruction,

I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell.

No I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell.


I've looked back on my time - the names and the faces,
A child long ago that I nearly forgot,

And felt like someone who'd just stepped on the place
where the last stair should have been - (then found it was
not).


Life's just a process of delamination,
Stripping your hopes - dissecting them gently.

I've opened my heart - and to my consternation
when I peered inside it was small, dark and empty.


[Chorus]
My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing,
drinking and smoking like somebody died.

I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin,
The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise."


I'm building a ruin - I ruin a building,
My bridges are burned out - my tunnels are filled in.


It's all a game I believe - the longer you play it the harder it
gets.
The most I can hope to achieve now's my breakfast,

a priest with a blindfold and last cigarette...

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing,

drinking and smoking like somebody died.
I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin,
The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise."


My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing,
drinking and smoking like somebody died.

I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin,
The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise."


I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell.

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