No matter what I do
You know what are
You know what you did

I say farewell to my fighting chance
It didn’t matter in the end
No matter what I did

I sold myself to the devil
I’m living your life sentence
Carrying the burden of your sins

I’ll never forget those wildfires
That spread me paper thin
Destroying everything
And all the evidence

Now no matter what I do
I’ll always be detached
These branches I carry are heavy
On this dark and lonely path

I am a shell of the person
I used to be before
Though nothing survives the winter
Except those wildfires
And the ghosts of my troubled past

I can’t feel my body now
A lost connection between
How I feel and who I am
A feeling never ending
I float with the river flowers
In a deep sleep dreaming

I lie inside myself for hours
Escaping my trials and tribulations
And linger there for awhile
To drown out the noise from above
As I float along the earth
Where gravity defies reality

He unbolted the locks
and untied my restraints,
which left painful bruises
and permanent marks.
  I could barely gather up
the strength to stand up
and make it to the door.
Then when I tried my
legs gave out and I fell
right on to the floor.
  As weak as a lamb
that can't hold the
weight of it's own wool.
He told me the shackles
I've worn were years ago
outgrown.
  There is a new pair
somewhere that I must fit into.
I listened because being in
a cage was all I ever knew.

Anger, sadness, fear,
All blend together perfectly.
It becomes hard to bear,
The life laid out in front
of them.
  Scary what the mind,
Can give a character to when
Confronting the darkest parts of
your soul.
  You breed in flesh and blood.
A mere thought becomes
a face of a person who
Has a story to tell.
The grief from the painter,
Makes it easy to sell.

Founded an army in my head,
In order to justify that sometimes,
Things are better left unsaid.
This life sentence,
Makes me think I'd be better off dead.
But I must remember to think bigger than myself.
I don't want my army to suffer along with me.
I must fight beside them,
Just as they fight beside me.
There is no failure, when there is still hope.
I've built up my tolerance, grown thicker skin.
I greet tomorrow with a new hope.

Her magic held captive.
A strange feeling lingers in the air.
The saints take blame for the sinners sins.
There is sorcery everywhere.
They light fires.
They burn witches.
What goes around comes around.
She has a temper that can burn down bridges.

Dust gathers on the shelf,
To fill the empty spaces.
There is a time and place,
To accept final defeat.
She survived the lions den.
Dancing the dance with her sisters
To the tune of hypocrisy.
A masquerade to mislead them all.
The crime of the century, is still written on her ageless face.
She blows smoke in their eyes,
In order to restore the humanity in her weakened faith.
You can taste the sweetness in the words she speaks.
She can mask her misery better than frosting can cover a cake.