Raise our voices up, lay our flowers down Only love can lift us now We find our common thread Over tear-stained ground People come and gather round Oh, lay 'em down Candle wax, like a river on the concrete Fears will fly if you let them Patterned-leather

Forgiveness is all we have Nothing else will give you A peace of mind When will this end Are you willing to just let go Get into a well of A tainted stain Got the beating of that Will we dig you

I will kill you Killed by my rage Bleed for my pain Revenge on treacherous snakes They will pay Slicing the flesh Sculptured wounds my catharsis I will stain Into the heart

(Slowly we'll learn) The sun burnt out today Fools are dancin' in the rain Stopped by the acid stain And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain Rid by an empty world Suffer the crushing weight Madness will crawl inside Alter the selfish stage

I feel so lost for me inside, lost am I, will it never end, but never am I stained black Now the end is drawing near, my hate is growing, can't you hear, it burns me with my cruelty (And I'm off) Like the fire of pain in the daylight

And from the flames As chance would have it The soulforged will come into light And from the flames as chance would have it The soulforged, The stainless will rise I will never change my mind I will leave it all behind I'm not insane

Disarm the lies that follow you Will the truth soon see you through? Disarm the pain that's burning through A river runs through the path you walk Got to find a way to carry on through this Ghosts from the past like a noose around your throat A constant