Tell me how to compromise
Share with me the reason
Blood is on your fingertips
It must be open season

Carry the weight upon your shoulders
Seething with every step you take
Be well rehearsed for your future days
And your inevitable fate

But while you're here
Emancipate
Carry on...
Create

That you should forge ahead
In a constant state
Steer through all the obstacles
Meet me at the pearly gates

To be welcomed there with open arms
I cannot guarantee
You are who you've always been
The only way to be

Face the judge and jury
Never you mind your inconsistencies
Lies will get you nowhere
While awake or in your dreams

My soul has taken its toll
For what I know and do not know
My memories, they haunt me
But I lay in bed so blissfully

I dream in color like no other
Faces and shapes a plenty
I wake to an alarm
Wondering who it is I've harmed

Hidden behind a mask
Is not an easy task
Carrying your opinions
Like a black cloak cast

Danger leads to anger
Anger leads to disaster
A fallen angel
Lay in the pasture

No pain, just laughter
The eternal savior
A course to hell
Is what I'm after

I gotta wake up in five hours
Is it worth it going to sleep
I got a deadline in the morning that I'm trying hard to meet
I'm racking my brain
Going insane
As the clock is tick tick ticking
With only myself to blame

I need to recharge my batteries
Argue my own heresy
Trust in those who trust in me
Avoiding that which I disagree
And to my seniors, the old and wise
That see no reason to compromise
I take the stage and stand up tall
As a self proclaimed know-it-all.

I want to climb up a redwood tree
Kiss the face staring back at me
I want to cry into the ocean
Be overcome with emotion

I want to sing in the open wind
Explain to you my devotion
I want you near as the fire burns
I don't want to cause a commotion
But I've succumb to your potion

I want to walk holding hand in hand
Through the park like couples do  
As long as I feel the notion
Do whatever you choose to

I want to feel your body next to mine
At night in bed or at the checkout line
As we grow old like a real fine wine
My heart belongs to you

I want to share in what the future holds
Carve it out into a plaster mold
I want to share my world with you
If you'll allow me to
Don't let my heart grow cold

There was no one there to lift him up
Failure par for the course
It used to be so simple once
Coming straight from the source

It's a lonely world he lived in
His existence barely known
He was the greatest of the jesters
With no chance to seize the throne

He never asked for your pity
But instead a lending hand
That he put away his childish thoughts
And start acting like a man

The discovery of unknown strength
Hidden deep within
He washed the paint right off his face
To reveal a crooked grin

The man whom laughed the loudest
Suffered deep inside
Masked with his crooked smile
That he tried so hard to hide

The clouds above so grey and dense
The stars nowhere in sight
He tried so hard to find himself
The taker of the night

Alive he'd been forgotten
He took a turn for worse
For years he drank the poison
But it never quenched his thirst

He adapted to blend in
His curiosity never met
No harm did he ever cause
Before a court that rests

Gone to meet his maker
With less than he arrived
Never finding his fulfillment
The man who was deprived

I'm open to temptation
The Devils advocate
A doctor to his patient
I think I'm feeling sick

Running from my demons
That hide inside my mind
The door is always open
And they often coincide

Released from my imprisonment
The weight from off my back
The feeling of entitlement
Attack, attack, attack!

A bright sun-drenched apocalypse
Burning my inner core
I stopped to smell the roses once
Why, I'm not quite sure

My vision sometimes fails me
My hearing comes and goes
My sense of touch compels me
As the smells elude my nose

Faith is all I have right now
But no godly man am I
When an angel falls from up above
It opens up the sky

My dreams consist of many demons
They haunt me through the night
I haven't any good reasons
To minimize my plight

I'm up before I'm ready
I go about my days
With the fear of going back to sleep
Just happy I'm awake

A never ending battle
A war I'll never win
Always starting over
The beginning of the end

Stopping for a minute
Just to catch my breath
Caught by a giant spider
Got stuck up on its web

Spun inside to be eaten
At a later date
How did I end up here
Could this be my fate

Trapped, I feel conflicted
Escaped my demons for a time
Worth every single minute
In myself, I do confide

Finally eaten and discarded
Bare bones and little waste
Though numb, I've been released
From occupying this place

Worn out my rude welcoming
I attempt to plead my case
Gone but not forgotten
I've vanished without trace

Woken just in the nick of time
Sweat pouring down my face
A dream within a dream
Dark as outer space