You and I were tangled in the madness Like insects in the spiderweb Helpless Prey for something that feeds on our suffering Your Misery and Mine Became hopelessly entwined Until the blurs replaced all the lines That we drew in the sand When we first began Our time in each other's lives
I was still a slave to my hate Too bitter and sour to remember the taste of the Honey of Love Warmed in Passion and Lust Until I saw you standing In the settling dust
Your eyes are deep shadows Who knows how far they go? Oubliettes of old memories You'd known long ago The Juliet to my Tortured Romeo Your voice became a song That would guide me home when I was lost And had nowhere to go.
And then... you faded You faded away You disappeared from my arms Back into the Haze into the Sun's hateful rays And the sky was ablaze til my nights became days And everything turned to a thousand different shades Of Gray And that's where I stayed Alone in my Cave Burning in Solitude and Rage
But Yesterday You may have Saved me Because Today I have this Strangely Amazing Sensation of Pure Elation And maybe I've just gone crazy But I think that you Gave me A new sense of sight cuz Lady, Where once my eyes saw only grays Obscured by the flames of my internal blaze Nothing fed my insatiable hunger My Spirit raged at the plainness of lovers You came along and you sang that old song And now once again I see