Smoking in the dark cinema See the bad go down again And I was gripped by that deadly phantom I followed him through hard jungles As he stalked through the back lots Strangling through the night shades Oh, the thief of life Moved onwards and outwards to

They got a nigga shedding tears, reminiscin on my past fears Cause shit was hectic for me last year It appears that I've been marked for death My heartless breath, the underlying cause of my arrest My life is stressed, and no rest forever weary My eyes

I'm upraised a feeling I can't explain My soul aches still searching is my refrain I, I still believe A lifetime of searching Questioning existence and purpose From the setting sun To the vast expanses Death from birth in reverse

In death, life what's next? The only thing certain is death Life, what's next? Is it the only thing? Some of us love and some of us hate And some of us fear the end won't come our way Freezing me, take me by my hand Show me things I can't understand For

Outside looking in, my heart lied I gave you everything, everything but blood Everything I had, and everything I've loved You tore away and left me dead inside Another chapter in my life The sun has set, only ashes left behind It turns out I was always

There is no time to hesitate Don't despair, show no fear Live your life without regrets Don't despair and show no fear In the face of a certain death When we die! From birth we're taught how to survive We're taught how war is waged And there are no men

Are you ready for the time of your life Let's, pretend, we're not at the end Pretend, that we have nothing left I know my uses I have my pride But my heart is still untamed I learned my lessons I've conquered death I go on and I'm unashamed

Take me to church I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life Amen, Amen, Amen My lover's got humor She's the giggle at a funeral

We are the ones We get knocked down We get back up, and stand above the crowd We stand above the crowd Is it life or death? We are, we are, we are The life I think about Is so much better than this

Anything that has a shape will crumble away, disappear We belong to the circle life of all creation We crawl, deny ourselves, refuse this evidence That we project our greatest fears on death and forget our power I want to live my life in close touch with