There's a black flag hangin' over this town, Get down! (get down!) Shut your eyes let darkness lead the fight, say goodnight The rest will watch their future die, It's time to let out the dead, dead come alive, We have the flag for the rest of our life

We're all one step from grace In the eyes of a saint I'm a stranger We're all trying to find a way At the death of every darkness there's a morning Though we all try Said I loved you without hesitation So easy for you to break my foolish heart Now I

I will rise up with the weight of the world I will rise up from the darkness, purged Rise up, take back control I find resolve in the darkest part of my mind I can stand to be inside I find the light to be a little much at times But I will rise Rise up,

You love me a saint or a sinner Somewhere between darkness and light And the gray where we live between wrong and right Whether I'm lost or I'm washed in the river Somehow we've stumbled our way into love There's two kinds of prayers on your knees The

And all my muscles ache It feels like spikes With every step I take There's nowhere to run Darkness is closing in I don't fear the setting sun Or the twilight that it brings Dark clouds fill the sky My fate is close at hand

Whoo, black diamond Picture's only begun Got you under their thumb Out on the streets for a living Your day is sorrow and madness Out on the street for a living Darkness will fall on the city It seems to follow you too

When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself I didn't know I was lost So wake me up when it's all over And I didn't know I was lost Feeling my way through the darkness Guided by a beating heart I can't tell where the journey will end

Ring around the rosies Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes, we all fall down Nursery rhymes are said, verses in my head Into my childhood they're spoon fed Hidden violence revealed, darkness that seems real Look at the pages that cause all this evil Mary

Life to lifeless Humanity cover me With the ashes of remembrance I will learn from this pain To eternity The cycle repeats I'll rebuild me There is no darkness without light to teach us of ourselves Death unfolds itself painfully

Hold me close Something in your eyes Hold me close and don’t let me go Like I’m someone that you might know The darkness just lets us see I've got your life inside of me The star that gives us light