Midnight rolls into my troubled mind.
My sanity I could not clearly find.
An ailing heart does stab my soul.
An age of solitude takes its toll.
I cry for help and bleed internally.
But no one ever listens that carefully
So, I start to reach for a shining Star,
A night time flame from afar.
Like a moth, I am drawn to her.
But my lessons I do remember.
"Come too close and you shall burn."
So silently to the void I turned.
With blurry eyes I had found
Spirits dwelling in red dark potions.
An angel who masks my pains away,
A devil who steals my life away.
But listeners shine their little light
To cast these demons from my sight.
"Prohibition with no exceptions!"
Are the raving of these few.
As the bottle fall to the ground
Shattered memories do confound.
My body is tired. My soul is weak.
The future seems far too bleak.
Lost in a hell that is only mine
A final solution comes to mind
Do I dare to take the leap?
Should I care of those I leave?
But perseverance holds me here.
To keep on walking aside my fears.
I draw my strength from a dream
That someday, I will find my Star.
For a chance to see her smile,
A chance of a sweet embrace,
I would wait a whole eternity.
So as midnight rolls into Your mind.
I say to you fair evening and good night.
And please pardon my insanity.
In my silence was the truth
Of how my heart yearned for you
I kept my distance, I held my words.
Protected you from my crazy world.
Not once did I ever say
A single word that could or may
Reveal the hidden secrets
That I bury deep within my soul.
But from afar, I saw you go
Into the arms of someone else.
And never will you ever know
Of how my heart once fell for you
And the regret and sorrow
That I forever keep.
That I can never show.
And in this time, I learned
A lesson from my ailing heart
That silence leads not love
For spoken words are meant to be
The keys to unlocking the passions
Held in someone's heart
As I walked along the corridor,
I saw the faces of the damned.
Void of hope, void of life
They looked at me through contented eyes.
Remembering harsh times we endured.
As I walked along the corridor,
I saw my life be damned.
Losing hope, losing life.
A moment in the infinity of time
When a bullet took its toll.
As I looked upon my hands,
All covered with the blood of another man
Bound in chains, bound by justice
A penalty to a guilty man
A curse for a dead man.
As I walked to my fate,
I was joined by another man.
A man of the cloth, a man of God
Solace did he gave to me.
Penance was what he asked of me.
As I reached my destination,
I stood before a cold steel door.
Behind it was a chair, behind it was my sentence.
This seat was meant for me
To take back what I had taken.
As I was lead into the room,
Stripped of my clothes, stripped of my dignity
Bound to the chair by leather straps.
Regretting my mistakes as I sit, watch, and wait.
As the witching hour drew near
Our wait had slowly ended.
A man donning a mask of black
The switch he did threw back.
So Justice was served, a debt was paid
They ended my journey
And into the darkness I walk.
So long ago did I lose you.
And so my heart was broken.
A shattered man did I become
No purpose in my ways.
Forever seemed my loneliness
For never would I see your loveliness,
To stare into your bright eyes,
To tell you that I loved you.
This I can do no more.
But now that I've come home
To where it all begins and ends,
Where angels such as you
Wait for me around the bend.
I hold you in my arms,
See you smile once more,
Your gentle touch is my salvation
My broken heart unbroken.
So here we are, hand in hand.
In a new world, a new begining.
If you'll take me, as you did before,
I'll keep my promise until I am no more.
