i can't speak for myself
but i will speak for the other
disfigured by disease and
left abandoned by her mother
fleeting glimpses
of angelic silhouettes
caught up in old
mistakes and regrets
she hold the knife and
i want to take the ride
heavy's the cost of life
and i'm not willing to die
her cup is overflowing but
she's screaming out for more
she's caught up in the fury but
i have dealt with this before
she mumbles through the verses
not blessings but curses
mesmerized by horoscope and prophecy
all that means nothing to me
there's cause for all this grief
and the dirt that's on her knees
she asks just what it means
no one can save her
from all that she's seen
memories kept warm and
safe until the end
if i can't love her as a lover
then i'll love her as a friend
harder than holding heaven
high above my head
weighed down by all
that we've left unsaid
while hope hangs from the trees
with no time left for pleasantries
dawns on the horizon
yeah, time is running out
all these second guesses
only exposing doubt
no, the kiss don't seem as sweet if
i can still taste the tears on her lips
staring off the edge, wondering
how the hell we ended up like this

and all i want is for you to recognize
all the love i wear behind my eyes
instead you question how 2+2=5
as if it dressed in some strange disguise
this light will wait for us
it will wait in dust
it will ignore the rust
until you've learned to temper your disgust
i'm sick of watching you
wander the streets alone
i'd burn alive
if i thought it'd bring you back home
and if you ever say you never loved me
i'll know you're still a liar
but if i say i never wondered
i deserve every inch of this terrible fire

i told you not to start what you couldn't finish, you dismissed it and called me ridiculous. now you're lost, drifting like a ghost along the coast, calling and all alone, pacing under a moon that's 400 miles from home. you sound so confused, but i told you that would happen; i just never thought you sink the entire ship to **** the captain.

moving down an ever branching path
dependent on neither his grace nor his wrath
pursued relentless by sickness born above
bathed in tears, covered in scars, calling it love
weighed down while crossing the diamond sea
burdened by faith and what it meant to me
this pedestal leaves but room for one
damnation dooms the rest who wallow under the sun
a letter written but never sent
more an act that what it meant
how do you save the one who begs to burn?
without the pain, how would we ever learn?

i know feelings aren't easy
and it can be hard to show
but if you could find it in yourself
i'd wrap you up tight and never let you go
your words knocked the breath right out of me
you spoke with a disdain that would be hard to fake
but believe i only hid your keys
so you wouldn't drive your car into the lake
sometimes, we all get low
we all live with a pain we don't think anyone else will ever know
but i need you to try
i need you to work on yourself like a mountain on high
there's not enough treasure buried in the diamond sea
that could ever equate to what you mean to me
yeah, i miss your smile
you don't seem to laugh anymore
you smother the spark i thought we'd set
still, all i can seem to say is "what'd you do that for?"

you look so lonely
in those photos with your friends
how can anybody know you if
the means never justify the end
no, no one can stop you
while you're blowing up those lines
if you don't care to take
the ****** nose as a sign
you want to stay home from school
and lose yourself, playing in the snow
only it's not as great as you imagine
we've lost you long ago
and we'd do anything to have you back
what you have more than makes up for what you lack
not a wolf, but a shadow