sweet and gentle crying
carassing day-old wounds
sweeping up the footsteps
placed beneath the moon
so silent is this aching
that tears across my soul
cascading all with sorrow
an empty fills this hole
lying in the bleakness
so blind inside with pain
gnawing at my weakness
and hope that flows in vain
so empty here without you
my love so far away
drifting in your blackness
yet here alone, i stay
surrender now, i wonder
do you hold me still
so deep within your heart now
though dreams i can't fulfill
in solitude forever 
this wound that will not heal
bound here by the injured
yet pain, i cannot feel
submissive in this mercy
yet punishment is true
an angel's gone forever
no matter what i do....

one more gulp
just one more sip
i'll be alright 
the seams won't wrip
we'll drive away
the world, we fight
drowning sorrows
with drinks tonight
my heart's so empty
but glass still full
drinking it down
to make pain dull
keep it all coming
what can you say?
we're hiding from problems
that won't go away
just one more bottle
filled to the top
we'll keep on drinking
so mem'ries will stop
feeding this aching
this drink's the last
ending the hatred
and hurt of the past
i promise it's over
i won't drink again
i didn't quite bruise you
so let's just pretend
forget all the bottles
i wasn't that bad
remember the good times
i'm sure that we had
but i feel a small aching
its deep down inside
one sip here will fix it
i know that i lied
just give me another
then put it away
i won't drink again
at least not today...

it seems like forever
but just yesterday
i was crying like you are
and running away
but now i have smiles
the wounds slowly heal
i vowed i would help you
yet i broke the deal
i see you there crying
i must turn away
i can't find the words
i've nothing to say
i don't want to be here
i just want to hide
now, just like the others
my soul must've died
i'm sitting here, lying
while you spill your soul
making up comforts
yet digging a hole
in the deepest of shadows
i hide these sweet lies
covered in darkness
they muffle your cries
deaf to your sorrow
i can't do a thing
i'm lost in your hurt
to pain you must cling
slicing away
at grief's endless sorrow
i'm here for today
but useless tomorrow

along soon, comes a moment
lost within this time
washing through like tear drops
taking what was mine
helpless in the grieving
of one not gone away
asking for the questions
but deaf to what they say
How can I keep living
when all I love is gone?
hidden by the shadows
cast here by the dawn
the sun's sweet rays should warm me
but cold, i sit here still
numb with all this aching
for dreams i won't fulfill
your face in every mirror
a voice in every word
screaming in the footsteps
with tears, the picture's blurred
my raven's heart is broken
a dragon without flame
so lost here, now without you
even dying's not the same