I like to sit beside the fire When the light is going down I like to hear the wild wind blow outside my door I have so much left to remember I have so much left to forget And I know I just don't have to search for more But you want to change my world

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust Taste the poison Feel that this is life Hallowed be the game The life clock strikes and You obey Like a candle light that fades When the life clock strikes You will obey

Don't wanna feel another touch Don't wanna start another fire Don't wanna know another kiss To another stranger Or let another day begin Won't even let the sunlight in No other name falling off my lips I'll never love again, ooh Don't wanna give my heart

Never, never All the shine of a thousand spotlights All the stars we steal from the night sky Will never be enough, never be enough Towers of gold are still too little These hands could hold the world, but it'll Never be enough, never be enough for me

What they want us to do Why won't they do what they want And let me do my thing they should be thankful There's lights of hope still shining If you do wrong they complain Even if you call the father's name its the same Don't they know it is nothing new

No one gets to their heaven without a fight What should have been our armor A refuge for the coming night A future of eternal light The snakes and arrows a child is heir to Are enough to leave a thousand cuts We build our defenses, a place of safety And

Like my heart and me, Dedicated to you. Because your love is the beacon that lights up my way. Because with you I know a lifetime could be just one heavenly day. If I should find a twinkling star, One half as wondrous as you are, That star would be If I

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

Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars I'm thinking out loud Place your head on my beating heart When your legs don't work like they used to before And I can't sweep you off of your feet Will your mouth still remember

I can see the future I can feel your heart stop I can change the whole world I'll rewrite the scripture I'm a beacon of light I'll erase the old ways Like a new beginning In the dark of winter I'm the dark of winter