Sacred Sound

Even after all the days are gone Even though the writer knows he's wrong Still the words are written and recalled In the empty isolated halls Held in high regard, he comes again Surface gone from under me, no more security The future lies erased These are the last remaining days If in doubt about the meaning meant Make this one decision your defense Stay alive to calculate the dead Lines of color radiate ahead Silence now descends upon the earth Can't deny the evidence Not now, not even once The future lies erased These are the last remaining days Surface gone from under me, no more security The future lies erased These are the last remaining days The only thing I'll take While I'm alive and half awake Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon Heart beaten down No surrender to the sacred sound When the vision cuts across the sky There is no reflection in my eye All the undertakes talk the same Saving pressure and appointing blame States of independence form anew Can't deny the evidence, not now, not even once The future lies erased These are the last remaining days The only thing I'll take While I'm alive and half awake Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon Heart beaten down No surrender to the sacred sound Light shatters the skeleton circus And the carnival's deadly host No memory, nothing remembered From the pages of the Book of Ghosts Though the system stays in place What if I'm no longer safe? Night falling gathers at my heels Lines the contours of the cold parade Search everywhere, nothing is revealed Fear creeps along the cavalcade Through the fields of evergreen Passing by as if unseen Though the system stays the same What if I'm no longer sane? The only thing I'll take While I'm alive and half awake Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade The only thing I want Is taken out and rained upon Heart beaten down No surrender to the sacred sound