Antemortem

There's beauty in pain that paints every day With colours that stay and won't fade away In wounds that won't heal, in nightmares too real They tell us that we can still feel In fire we're forged and given a form The harder the hammer the stronger the soul For all of our tears and all of our scars They remind us of who we are One is for the heart we left behind One is for a friend who said goodbye One is for the love we swore would never die But that was in another lifetime One is for the times we were denied One is for the feelings locked inside One is for the secrets that we've had to hide But that was in another lifetime We might've been kings We might have been pawns We might've been ducklings We might have been swans There's no grand design There's only desire You're either the pearl or the swine For all that we've lost and our every tear The choices we've made have brought us here Everything we are, everything we have We have built from fragments One is for the heart we left behind One is for a friend who said goodbye One is for the love we swore would never die But that was in another lifetime One is for the times we were denied One is for the feelings locked inside One is for the secrets that we've had to hide But that was in another lifetime But that was in another lifetime Please believe in me Because the man you see Is not the man I used to be We may always be alone and broken But we have survived, we are alive Please believe in me Because the man you see Is not the man I used to be We may always be alone and broken But we have survived, we are alive One is for the heart we left behind One is for a friend who said to goodbye One is for the love we swore would never die But that was in another lifetime One is for the times we were denied One is for the feelings locked inside One is for the secrets that we've had to hide But that was in another lifetime Time after time, people try, just to Feel once more the fire that burns Everytime we fall to the ground And everything we leave behind Oh, that was in another lifetime Time after time, people try, just to Feel once more the fire that burns Everytime we fall to the ground And everything we leave behind That was in another lifetime