Sven Rhoads

Our eyes met when we looked beyond the metal cage
A glance of uncertainty and of unknowing fear
Sitting side by side a bond was forged on life's stage
Injected into my heart you were one I held so dear
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I've felt the beating return
The single spark to let it all burn
You stand beside me, devotion in your eyes
And deep inside me I could never deny
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Eyes open before the dark stream
How it all feels like a familiar dream
The journey is coming to a close
A brand new place I swear I know
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Behind the blue that looks out into the universe
Seeking the sanctuary of the soul
No more trying to make the best out of the worst
Only needing to take back control
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This fight that I must come to win
Against the hands of gravity
The waves are growing taller
As the seas begin to rise
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In this room where I stare at these walls
Portraits of what I need to achieve before me
Reminders of all I am and how far I've come
The clock peels the hours until freedom calls
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When tomorrow is nothing more than a figment of imagination
Pressing through the exit wounds of the current times
Black roses bloom in the garden of our damnation
Awaiting the dead man to come save their souls
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How easy is it to drown in this life
When you struggle just to survive
Killing yourself trying to feel alive
So why do we fear that we die
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Your smile once shined like the golden sun
Now the skies are painted so gray
Your hand held in mine so soft and warm
But now I feel that you've slipped away
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Tossing and turning the turmoil of the night
It keeps me from sleep and holds me too tight
Watching the hours that are peeling away
Until the dawn comes of a brand new day
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This black hole that has become a part of me
Sucking all the life out of my being
All I crave in my bones is the need to disappear
I cant take anymore of what I'm seeing
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Once again my being is taking another beating
Life just cannot leave me alone for long
I cannot accept any surrender or defeating
This bodily sacrifice, I must remain strong
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Sown in too deep that its become part of me
Festering, infecting but somehow I cannot see
Denial of love when I cannot care for myself
Weight of the world in my person hell
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Too many years have been passing me by
Down in a hole where I swear I would die
My wings are burnt by my own inner flame
And the blood on my hands spells out my name
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Amongst my brethren I hear the tales of the toil in life
In the distance is the next in line without a care for strife

In a gentle breeze two worlds open up to me
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Beneath the waves of my subconscious
All is black yet I find myself floating
I hear a million things in the nothingness
At the mercy of it all, excited by the unknowing
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Every castle of sand will fall to the waves
While the ghost among man wants to sleep in his grave
The empty of a heart just looks for the meaning
It cannot explain why things always end the same
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I've been fighting a battle that doesnt seem to end
I see the sunshine but its keep turning shades of red
The angels weep for what the world has become
So sick and tired of the fight that has yet to be won
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On the battlefield that I have be beaten down
Blood flows like a river from my every wound
Fire burning in my eyes looking up from the ground
Tonight the entwined will repel the coming doom
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As the tears come falling down again
And the oceans begin to rise
When the darkness comes around the bend
And truth is burned alive
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