Take my hand When I’m gone Far away Take my hand When you’re gone I’ll wait I’m battling with the intrusion of you on my mind The ghost of you by my side But through it all I know I’ve fought for far too long to be so powerless this time To let you back inside So let the rain fall down on me When I fall asleep I dream of relinquished memories And I will never let you go Until I find myself where you roam I’m cloaked in all black Veiling any tears that I could cry The well is running dry And I cannot see Emptied every semblance of your presence A solitary sentence That never ended in goodbye So let the rain fall down on me When I fall asleep I dream of relinquished memories And I will never let you go Until I find myself where you roam Where you roam Reach out Don’t turn away ‘Cause I’m here now But I can’t stay I’ll reach out before you fade With the distant memory of better days Take my hand When I’m gone Far Away Take my hand When you’re gone I’ll wait ‘Till we meet again I reached out to you but you disappear A ghost so real but you are never here Justify my sins in a flood of tears And drown me in my regret How has it been so long? And now I have so long to go Don’t let me forget Don’t let the rain wash you away So let the rain fall down on me When I fall asleep I dream of relinquished memories And I will never let you go Until I find myself where you roam No matter how far you’ve gone As life moves on Just know that I’ll never forget you Wish I could hold on to the time But as life passes me by Just know that I’ll never forget you

Spying eyes They're searching in the night Unseen, still, and unheard Lurking just out of sight My spying eyes From a shaded passage I watch you shine, My lonely star, my enchanting sign But from your gaze What do you see? You stare right through me The sight of your eyes, The glow on your face Lucidity crushed Obsession embraced I don’t care if you love or hate me Just know that I’m here You’ll never keep me away I listen with my ear to the floor Every waking moment, I’m waiting right behind your door I gave you all that was left of me Isn’t it funny how you'd rather sit and watch me bleed But I’ve watched the years go by Yet I still scream your name I’m the flicker in the light, the shadow on your bed I’m running in circles, it’s all in my head My sleeping ecstasy, oh You're the melody that haunts my soul, A symphony that makes me whole Still your gaze A piercing view, It cuts right through The sight of your eyes, The glow on your face Lucidity crushed Obsession embraced I don’t care if you love or hate me You’ll never keep me away I listen with my ear to the floor Every waking moment, I’m waiting right behind your door I gave you all that was left of me Isn’t it funny how you'd rather sit and watch me bleed But I’ve watched the years go by Yet I still scream your name I’m the flicker in the light The shadow on your bed I’m running in circles, You're stuck in my head Wherever you roam, I roam Through highs and lows, eternally Spying eyes They're searching in the night Unseen, still, and unheard Lurking just out of sight Nowhere to hide So sleep tight So sleep tight Nowhere to hide from spying eyes I’ll never stay away I listen with my ear to the floor Every waking moment, I’m waiting right behind your door I gave you all that was left of me Isn’t it funny how you'd rather sit and watch me bleed I’ve watched the years go by Yet I still sing your name I’m the flicker in the light The shadow on your bed I’m running in circles, Get out of my head My ecstasy I’m still singing your name Sweet ecstasy I’m still singing your name

Lost faith in things you say Festering in an empty space Can I unlearn my mistakes If I can’t hate myself in front of you? When all you do is take my sorrow for excuses And I can’t profess the pain I understand why you hate me Ignoring the calls while you’re walking ‘round your room It’s a matter of sustenance For the emptiness inside of you I’ll come to, But I’ll never step inside the lines you drew You talk of how I'm jaded And I just push you away Tell me what more can I say If I can’t hate myself in front of you When all you do is take my sorrow for excuses And I can’t profess the pain I fight in my own way You go with your gut On your throne With the trust that you’re bleeding The feeling aside From the cut Of the bones that you break Is a means of relieving I understand why you hate me Ignoring the calls while you’re walking ‘round your room It’s a matter of sustenance For the emptiness inside of you I’ll come to, But I’ll never step inside the lines you drew You call it remorse, but The message you gave is deflecting the blame Trying to pull me in I never liked you It was love from the start Yeah, you tore me apart You wouldn’t listen You knew I was sick but drove me up the wall There’s no fix when you just wait for me to fall I understand why you hate me Ignoring the calls while you’re walking ‘round your room It’s a matter of sustenance For the emptiness inside of you

From these demons Deliver me And just let me waste away I sought peace but found release In an ungodly domain A fever dream That I can’t seem to sweat out How it drags me further down I’m untethered and unbound My calls of distress are fading out Muted like the daunting color of the clouds And I cannot let go I lost my head This loss of breath It never ends So here I am drowned in my own skin Fighting the tide that I can’t swim As the current pulls me in, oh I watch the shore escape my sight Feel the life leaving my eyes Reaching out to the fading light A capsized vessel in the sand Enclosed are desperate palms of hands Our stories live on by the fire Till the final light withers from time The water, it fills my lungs And I’m paralyzed Through the abyss among the fallen woods I materialize I lost my head This loss of breath It never ends So here I am drowned in my own skin Fighting the tide that I can’t swim As the current pulls me in, oh I watch the shore escape my sight Feel the life leaving my eyes Reaching out to the fading light Further away As it slowly fades I sought peace and found release in an ungodly domain So just take what’s left of me And dispose of my brittle bones And my yearn for home I hear it calling me And with solitude comes peace And uncomfort in the unknown Allow my body to be deserted And overgrown There’s nothing left of me I lost everything to the undertow Forevermore I row, At last I fall apart Ill fated from the start Deliver me from futility My somber release There’s nothing left of me I lost everything to the undertow Forevermore I row, At last I fall apart Ill fated from the start Deliver me from futility My somber release From these demons Deliver me And just let me waste away Wasting away in this ungodly domain

It feels like we’re all stuck in this place Time is moving slowly like it’s all erased And when you walk inside these walls Show your face It’s not the drugs and alcohol that I’m chasing Show your face I’m too tired to play your games Will we ever find who left us behind Wide awake I hear you pacing the halls now I’m fearless I know we’re both a little lost

We are two mariners Our ships' sole survivors In this belly of a whale Its ribs are ceiling beams Its guts are carpeting I guess we have some time to kill You may not remember me I was a child of three And you, a lad of eighteen But I remember you And I will relay to you How our histories interweave At the time you were A rake and a roustabout Spending all your money On the whores and hounds Oh You had a charming air All cheap and debonair My widowed mother found so sweet And so she took you in Her sheets still warm with him Now filled with filth and foul disease As time wore on you proved A debt-ridden drunken mess Leaving my mother A poor consumptive wretch Oh, oh And then you disappeared Your gambling arrears The only thing you left behind And then the magistrate Reclaimed our small estate And my poor mother lost her mind Then, one day in spring My dear sweet mother died But before she did I took her hand as she, dying, cried Oh, oh "Find him, bind him Tie him to a pole and break His fingers to splinters Drag him to a hole Until he wakes up naked Clawing at the ceiling of his grave" It took me fifteen years To swallow all my tears Among the urchins in the street Until a priory Took pity and hired me To keep their vestry nice and neat But never once in the employ Of these holy men Did I ever once turn my mind From the thought of revenge Oh, oh One night I overheard The prior exchanging words With a penitent whaler from the sea The captain of his ship Who matched you toe to tip Was known for wanton cruelty The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear Oh, oh "Find him, bind him Tie him to a pole and break His fingers to splinters Drag him to a hole Until he wakes up, naked Clawing at the ceiling of his grave There is one thing I must say to you As you sail across the sea Always, your mother will watch over you As you avenge this wicked deed" And then, that fateful night We had you in our sight After twenty months at sea Your starboard flank abeam I was getting my muskets clean When came this rumbling from beneath The ocean shook The sky went black And the captain quailed And before us grew The angry jaws Of a giant whale Oh, oh, oh, oh Don't know how I survived The crew all was chewed alive I must have slipped between his teeth But, oh, what providence What divine intelligence That you should survive as well as me It gives my heart great joy To see your eyes fill with fear So lean in close and I will whisper The last words you'll hear Oh, oh

As darkness fades to light A glimpse of morning in your eyes You feel all too familiar, oh Remnants of skin and bone Are you what’s left of me? Or is it all a dream? Awoken by a young light piercing to the eyes And the noise is too loud The noise is too loud The warmth of your glow, your skin so cold Teach me to let go Illuminate my soul Into my old eyes I stare back A face I don’t recognize anymore A survivor of a dire past And I’m still learning to love again Silence the voices inside my head Please teach me to love again And I’d give everything to disappear into the darkness Awoken by a young light piercing to the eyes And the noise is too loud The noise is too loud The warmth of your glow, your skin so cold Teach me to let go Illuminate my soul We meet again for the hundredth time I lay awake for the hundredth night In the confine of my mind Let go Just tell me what you want And I promise you I’ll return to the light Anything for you to let me out Just tell me you love me still Just tell me you love me still Just tell me you love me still ‘Cause I would never hurt you Just tell me you love me still ‘Cause I would never run ‘Cause I would never run And I’m still waiting And I’m still waiting Just tell me who you are Just tell me what you want ‘Cause I would never hurt you And I would never run Just tell me what you want ‘Cause I would never hurt you And I would never hurt you And I will never hurt you

In my fading hours, time runs thin, A gentle breeze from within, You found the new dawn of another’s embrace Night before the morning sun You said I’m the one I must go Hating what I’ve become The sickness has torn us apart Doomed from the start But I kept hanging on, ‘cause When I’m - with you - my world it comes alive And in those darkened times you were still by my side But now - I’m gone - it brings your changing heart Our love falls apart As life’s currents carry their flow I remain part of your soul And your gentle glow Waiting ‘till the break of dawn It could have been love It could have been love Though I - am gone - and your heart’s in a new place I’ll still watch over you, a guardian of grace I’ll be - your ghost - your silent guiding light As you journey through the night Oh your touch Your breath Your lust for someone else My pain endures Death is not the end But I’ll hold on Until we meet again We’ll meet again Don’t run away Oh under the starlit skies We laughed, cried, and faced the world with pride Sweet memories etched in eternity Our hope never dies You ran away But you ran away But you ran away In my fading hours time runs thin, A gentle breeze from within, You found the new dawn of another’s embrace Dark night before the morning sun Say I’m the one But I’m gone Ashes what I’ve become The sickness has torn us apart Doomed from the start So doomed from the start Your touch Your breath Your lust for someone else My pain endures Death is not the end But I’ll Hold on Until we meet again I wish it could change Oh I wish it could change Lost in time In my fading hours, muted decay, The rising sun, cold and gray You found a new dawn And ran away, no Run away Run from me Run away He’s running from me Run away Run from me Run away He’s running from me Run away Run from me Run away He’s running from me