There was a fire burning in your eyes As we sat in the darkness and tried to devise A way to live forever To sever the tether Between our fragile bodies and our immortal soul We tried to understand things beyond our control We lived in the pages of ancient books Stealing secrets likes shameless crooks We dreamed impossible dreams We talked only in absolutes and extremes The foolish invincibility of youth We thought we were guided by truth But we were blinded by our fear Of losing everything we hold dear We became obsessed in the pursuit That a sickness of a mind took root We began to lose sight Of what is wrong and what is right