Take a step, miss a breath
There's something watching you

Turn around, make no sound
There's nothing in your view

Quicken your step, one ragged breath
There's something after you

Whirl around, none to be found
There's this feeling you can't shake

All alone, the light is gone
When you feel a breath on your neck

Hands over your eyes, scream but you can't find, the breath you once held

It has finally caught you

Like a ghost it follows close
Never to be acknowledged or forgotten

The "what might have been's", haunt your heart and dreams, and your every waking moment

No wish upon a star, will change the facts from what they are
Your time has come and gone and now we're moving on

I lay down my head, against the soft green grass
The sun rises and sets, as the years begin to pass

Beneath this oak on the hill, is where I wait for you
Feel the wind brush my skin just as you used to do

Rain falls slowly from the sky, as do my tears
What keeps you from me, unbearable are my fears

Then one day, with the sun high above
I see a silhouette, and my heart soars like a dove

With the face of an angel, and eyes like the sea
There you are, come home to me

Moonlight shines high above the trees
Feeling the gentle swaying breeze
Silent tears stream down my face
As I think of the choices that you made

On the edge, I'm looking down
The waves below, the crashing sound

I feel in my heart it's time to go
As I close my eyes I just know
When they open again, you'll be beside me
One last step and I know we'll be
Together forever, you and me

Here is where the devil lies
Where darkness brings your fears to life

You can't undo what has been done
There's no escape, nowhere to run

Leave the life you've known behind
Let the flames consume your mind

The gates of Hell are open wide
Here the drums, nowhere to hide

Don't you scream from the pain you've earned
You played with fire, and darling you've been burned

Where has the time gone? The years that have passed me by
Now a teenage girl in high school, tomorrow a mother and a wife
Today a rebel without a cause, tomorrow a conformist without a clue

The days seem to fly, since the time when I knew you
From a maiden to a lover, a lover to a crone, the stages of my life seem to blow away like smoke

The clock is ticking onward, the sand is running out
Skin once young and taunt, is wrinkled beyond a doubt
Hair a steely grey, body a huddled wreck
I guess this is the price we pay to finally earn respect

This Cynical World has me spinning
From war and hate to the abuse we'll never escape
It almost doesn't seem worth it, going through this day to day
Born in this world of pain only to die again
I need something to believe in or I won't survive, give me a reason for living this senseless life

Fire, earthquake, famine, and flood
Violence between neighbors till the streets run with blood
We build up these empires to watch them fall
I just have one question, what's the point of it all?

I can't take this pressure the stress is making me drown, I won't last much longer the currents pulling me down
Your arms are like preservers, your touch filled with sureness, reach into the waters and pull me above the surface

You try so hard to bring back my innocence
But after a day in this world nothing makes sense
Only in your arms can I find my solace, my reason for existing
And still you plead for me to see not everything in life is so persisting
Tell me why we're put on Earth for such a short time, if we'll die in the end why should we even try?

"Think of it as a milestone in the journey you've led, with death just a pit stop on the long road ahead
Besides who's to know what happens when you're dead?"

"Know I'm here for you morning, noon, or night and together we can create our own slice of paradise
Enjoy the time we have before the sand runs out; don't agonize over this mystery forever shrouded in doubt
The world holds such beauty of the likes we'll never know, if only you'd open your eyes and see the show
You'll realize life is still worth living, even if so many are unforgiving."