Pride goes before the fall

Pride or no pride at all

Fall anyway

Pick yourself back up

Having enough pride

To build a life

You'd be proud of

Marred memories

Everything was a lie

But this moment of time

Seeds the truth

As the life blood bleeds

Out of my mind

Electricity

Into the synapses as they fire

Haywire

Say something

Anything at all

I was

You

Once

Too

Never again

The cutting edge

Falters and stumbles

Blind

The heart beats on endlessly

Into the knife at the end of the night

The light from your eyes

Waiting to be seen by the dawn

For the first time

Ever

It suffers all the tragedies you ever could come to know

Just to turn them into a fine powdery snow

Of solid diamond shards

But you would never not joke

It's all so fine

That you'd pass it up

As every other thing

You've ever wasted

In the single greatest gift

That you'll all ever grow

Breath it in

Breath it out

Figure out all else

Or just leave it

For someone else

I couldn't convince a stone to turn to coal

Let alone a mind that thinks that they already know what they've been told to know

You know?