He didn't live in darkness It was the light he couldn't bear Illuminating the futility Exposing the reality A world full of selfish people A trait of the species Darkness would have been his friend To hide the truth he could not deny Obfuscate lust, greed and pride Survival of the fittest, hey that's alright Instead he proclaimed humanity's state Without the hope of even temporary escape Grim as the Reaper knocking at your door
A car crash aftermath You can't help but slow down Turn to see what's there to see But not for long The guy in front of you slowed down too (We've all the same hard wired brain) Lest you find more than you thought Not turn back in time And rear end the other guy
He found ways to sing of loneliness Despair given a melody Between the look in his eyes and The tremble in his voice He could sell it to a poor man He was no faker As real as the sun That will burn out the eyes of the one Who gazes too long At it's blazing light From light years away Giving decieving darkness For the moments you bask in it's glow
The burden was too much for his skinny back More than the weight of many worlds He fell beneath his own weight To him the logical response But not to me And not to you Regardless the empathy and solidarity How he seemed to have read our mind Known our story, all our years to now But he never knew the ending How I wish it would have been his too ESCAPE From the blinding darkness and the piercing light My third eye has been blind Open it,Β Β Lord Show me the reason And I will sing your song