Living A Lie

You washed your hands so many times
Coloring the water brown and black
Muddy canals from your fingers
That water can't wash away
Your stains

You're a shining jewel, a pretty gem
Vision of the future, in a cell
Muddy water from your eyes
The tears won't wash away
Your pain

How can you still pretend?
How can you smile?
You're living a lie
You're living a lie

You share your days with death
He sleeps with you at night
And strokes your hair
He sets you on fire
In flames

How can you still pretend?
How can you smile?
You're living a lie
You're living a lie

The pain that he rips in you
The pain is mine
When he strokes you
In your dreams
He's haunting mine

How can you still pretend?
How can you smile?
After what he did
After I died
You're living a lie

Contrary-Wise

Lie down in the grass
I drowned in the dew
The drops rose over my head
Until I saw it all
Through a blur

The rest of the world,
All of it, is an illusion
In the middle, you're torn
Between contradictions

You want to feel safe,
You want things to change
You're trying your wings,
You stay within range
Contrary-wise

You've got blinded eyes

Lie down in the sun
I dreamed of you
I saw you in the water
Saw you smiling
Until you faded

The rest of the world,
All of it, is an illusion
In the middle, you're torn
Between contradictions

You want to feel safe,
You want things to change
You're trying your wings,
You stay within range
Contrary-wise
You've got blinded eyes

Rifts Between The Hills

There was a time we were together
When it was simpler than this
We stood there, rock, boulder
With eachother's weights
On our shoulders

There was a time the world was free
Open to roam, for you and me
Tied together, in wonder
The world isn't like that
Any longer

Time flew, dreams grew
Into rifts between the hills
I've hated you, and loved you
With some of each still
Cheap thrill
Cheap kill

There was a place for those like us
We saw it, and conquered
We stood together, amazed
The world has lost it
All its grace

Time flew, dreams grew
Into rifts between the hills
I've hated you, and loved you
With some of each still
Cheap thrill
Cheap kill

The world was ours when we believed
In every grain of our fantasies
As easily as we imagined
As easily we died,
My friend

Time flew, dreams grew
Into rifts between the hills
I've hated you, and loved you
With some of each still
Cheap thrill
Cheap kill