There is a darkness I see expanding outward from me

There is a pain that I feel beneath all of my old scars

The holes that should be filled they remain void and hungry

In times of boredom and unrest they scream for flesh

Now I won't profess to be a prophet for the dark one

I will never ever belong to the shadow

But it has been a long time dying; dying deep within me

And all your light has yet to drive it out of me

I profess that the light is living strong within me

I confess that the shadow keeps on dying slowly

There is a light in me I must continue to see

Listen to that flame and let it whisper softly to me

For in it's rustling lies the truth I believe and need

That I am loved regardless of my darkest of deeds

And I know that not a thing can bring me down

If I, keep this, love closely

Fuck off, go

Leave me, be

I'm slowdancing with shadows

Dip my toes in their depths

I find they are shallow

Though I do remain rapt

So sweet, so perversely perfect

So supple, oh how I wish to taste

The release, that keeps on disappointing

The surcease, of all that love should be

I find myself in a draught and yet I keep on drowning

On thoughts of what might have been, oh how my heart keeps dying

The wind like a sigh oh how that whore keeps sighing

Within a mind in my mind that has been slowly dying

I find myself in a draught and yet I keep on drowning

On thoughts of what might have been, oh how my heart keeps dying

The wind like a sigh oh how that whore keeps sighing

Within a mind in my mind that has been slowly dying

I'm slowdancing with shadows

Dip my toes in their depths

I find they are shallow

Though I do remain rapt

So cheap

So sweet

Just leave me be

There's a place my demons go to hide

In the open; on my blackest nights

There's a hunger that I still deny

Imperfection b'hind my foolish pride

I don't see the moon only darkening clouds

For every silver lining a blackened shroud

No hope for redemption while I deny

But in acceptance I won't need to hide

Sometimes we manage to find the black on every silver lining

Forget that behind our dark clouds the sun is still shining

The light will never start dying, just look to the horizon

The darker your night, the brighter that dawn awaiting