It tastes like the static of the TV
A continuous numbing void
That consumes all thoughts and dreams

There's no where to run and hide
The weight of it all is my confinement
And it destroys that last piece that ever made me human

I'm writing you now
To show you how
All your lies
Won't result in prize
I hope your all alone
Because this heart of stone
Will never give in
And let you win

A man dressed in red
With sweet, enticing words
And a song so harmonizing
Like the tune of a bird's

Cold midnight wind
Played with his crimson cloak
He whistled a song
And my silence broke

"Who are you?
Why are you here?"
Quick was his response
He whispered in my ear

"The time is come
You are near
And at last
I do appear.

Whom am I you might ask
But do not dread
I cannot hurt you
I am the Phantom in Red

I will show you
Things no one else sees
The locked up secrets of the world
And I have the keys"

It came to me in a dream
You were under a white beam
Your shadow echoed under the light
It seems though it was night
I saw your face once more
The one that I still adore
Your skin was pale and eyes void
Reminding me of the day your life was destroyed
I had seen you for the last time
And now my heart could retire to peacetime

I woke up this morning
And sat in bed
Painful memories
Remind me of what I should've said

Now you gone and left
And I'm all alone
Wishing somehow
I would've known

The words to say
To you that night
Instead of the ones
I said out of spite

I swear to you
That if you just stay
I'll say all the words
You want me to say.