From the Dirt

I came from nothing A creature from the dirt I had learned to like the taste A haunted little palace With ghosts in the attic Pathetic little wretch with every talent to waste Vices like vipers I used my broken fingernails To claw twisted nightmares into my face The road was dark And there are no angels Relentlessly searching for the pieces of myself Rise The gravewalker Driven by my demons Someway, somehow Built with knees that do not bow I rose from that grave A man with no name Skinned like a leper that lost everything The dead man walking A risen Lazarus Alive again like an ancient disease Knowing that I live for, bleed for, die for Every pain to prove that I earned my scars Rise The gravewalker Rise Rise Rise I broke myself to stay alive I broke myself for years All pretense is gone This moment is mine All for just our moment lost in time And we've never wanted anything more Live your life so that you may die Die upon your feet Live your life so that you may die Die upon your feet Live your life so that you may die Die upon your feet Live your life so that you may die Die upon your feet Live your life so that you may die Die upon your feet