Until the End

Words spawned from fire scrape across the sky Where once they failed now they strike Endless dreams have fallen through, lie unresolved One sentence is gone, intentions were wrong Unraveled the strands, the damage is done Where I stand, the function fails without you there Knives so set and ready-made cut the wedding cake The cold sideways room, the ring that never breaks Bride and groom take the empty floor And they breathe in other fumes, exhumed within that law Caught on film, they fill their page And build their own gilded cage Hounds, cast-off clowns with anxious hands Compare them there, the perfect pair And the parasites descend as one Man and boy alike, a thousand strong Stand down your defences In shadows drawn from your future tense Their attends the spectre on their causeway For this time, I'm not foresaken yet Live on through me Forget you ever knew me at all When I'm reckless and I don't belong Say again the words that I'm founded on Shout them out and high They scrape against the night sky in the starlight Putting the charlatans and frauds right behind me Any other day You'll return and stay by the firelight Taking again the empty place right beside me From where you are, bring you back home Will you stay until the end? When I'm down upon my knees, will you defend me then? And wreathe my form deep in your velvet arms one last time Before my heart sets you free