As I lay down
My aching flesh embraced the wasted ground
The fading day retreats again

The fearless night will follow

Consuming life-like shadows

There's nothing more to see

The hollow world

That lies beyond my reach
Within the other sad souls dwell
Without a place for me


Consuming life-like shadows
There's nothing more to see


The braided web beneath my skin
The fragile veil that holds me in

And when it's lifted from my eyes
No more illusion, no disguise


And in the shroud of my despair
No hope, no light, no prayer.


I see the strangers stand and stare
The secrets of my heart laid bare
Their cold hard hands concede no care

And now I see I am alone

For all but one a faceless man

Who whispers softly in my ear
Confides in me the hollow truth
As empty as my broken form

Left as my soul prepares to flee
And now I see I am alone


I lie alone
My sallow flesh no longer can I call my own
A fate enthrals those gathered round

By my own hand, by my own hand

And as oblivion, once welcome

Now unfurls before me
An endless void, a fallen pride
From here there's but one road


And as the snow begins to fall like ash around me
To conceal my mortal shame

My instinct screams to pull myself back
From the point of no return


My frozen limbs lie at my side
My weakened heart is almost still
The dimming of my troubled thoughts

The raging of an iron will

Raging for a life soon cast aside

No resolution with it's end
Weeping for the lives they lived in vain
No choice in death, no chance to mend


And through the burning tears that never fall
I find my sight slowly restored

What once seemed a desperate flight
Morphs into a fate abhorred


And then I find a calm resolve
Heavy eyes stung by the hungry cold
Faltering I walk away

By my own hand