I was young once, a long time ago
And looked into your eyes where a dark angel resides;
hides in a masquerade mask made if white
Use to pretend I could jump in too,
To take protection from the world outside.

You shaded me in and we walked on the dark lines
I couldn't hold my liquor back then and you never met the real me
Just a projection of who I thought I might be
A shell of a woman who lost everything

I'll never have a family of my own or someone to say the word love in my ear
But I am not afraid of the loneliness anymore
My heart won't be weighed down by anything
After the storm

I cannot miss you; will not let myself
For the fear that I could not feel if I tried
When the sun rises will I catch my breath
Will I still feel human or no more than a fly on the wall

Observing the life around me from the inside out
Because I cannot give to this world of myself
There is no actual matter to show the souls who long for it
I have not what they ask of me

I am naked branches of the tree
Leaves used to shelter but the winter taken over
Left me with nothing but the roots that ground me
One day those will die as well

And death will rule over land and sea
Tracing all that we were, I am, they could be
Back to the grains of sand which trample under feet
Absolutely nothing in this world is any of ours to keep