How did I learn how to love?
It wasn't through life
It wasn't blind eyes and manic fingers
Selfish wants and angry desire
It wasn't through life
Life that teaches that nothing is known
And all you should feel
Is all that is cold
How did I open my heart?
It wasn't through trust
When ten thousand raging madmen
Were aiming at closed doors
With sharpened knives in hand
Ready to eviscerate
With smiling faces
How did I give you my grace?
It wasn't through need
I was always going to dance
Unseen my form and feet
While darkness in strangers eyes
Impart their hatred onto me
Ready for the throat
And hungry for blood
How did I learn to love?
Only because I was born a fool
And I learned the truth
Deep inside myself
How did I learn to love?
I learned to love because I must

Rip me now to shreds
If that's what you really want
I was always waiting for it anyways

How did I learn to love?
The answer was always known

I take your hand and guide you through the fire
I walk with you
Aware as I can be that I'll only get burned
That my skin as ash and my bones as coal
Will no longer be beautiful
I take your hand
And watch as madmen fall in love with you
And you feel their love
Knowing they only bring abyss
For you to fall in and die as horribly as any sinner did
I watch
The eyes of a savior knowing
Angels can't exist without some demon to fight against
Some feeling from before
When man was animal
And instincts are primal
They know your skin but not your heart
Your voice but not your song
Your eyes
My endless skies
To fly through
Or endless oceans
To drown in
Not knowing how to swim
I take your hand
Knowing I can hold it better
Reading lines across your palms
Love as shining alms
Love
I take your hand
And fall when you're falling
And rise when your rising
Walking through gardens
As evil surrounds your halo