Fire on the porch on a summer's night
All of my things are there inside
Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher

I smell leaves and burning tires
Dogs in the meadows barking wild
Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done


I'm not drunk and I'm not sad
There's nothing inside that I want back

Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at
Do you wonder how I am tonight
Then don't lose time looking in my eyes

Not every tear means you're gonna cry

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling
There is nothing but dust
In the layers I'm peeling


From the bottom of my heart
Beats a rattling drum

Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun


Now under crushing skies of grays
Paralyzed with phantom pains
Before this room became just a place


Where I just sleep through endless days
Spinning webs and carving names

Where thoughts break up, exploding in space

But I once crossed a quarter mile

Through black pools of razor wires
And cut through steel with the edge of a file


While singing rhapsodies in stride
Hell-bent and dignified



Now my time has come, "now who you fooling and why?"


From the bottom of my heart
comes a cold dark feeling
There is eminent death

To the promise I'm keeping

From the bottom of my heart

Comes an army of one
Marching back up the steps
Into the rays of the sun


Pale-faced and hollowed eyes
Buried under ruptured skies

Not every smile means I'm laughing inside
Two-faced and compromised
I've enraptured you with lies

Everything means nothing and tonight everything is mine

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling
I have buried so much
In the layers I'm peeling


From the bottom of my heart
A battle will come

Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun


From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
Wrapped around tight

With no sign of leaving

From the bottom of my heart

A ballad is sung
Through a whisper she comes
Into the rays of the sun