The Darkest Hour

Take the Pain Away

hopeless guilt swallows my soul
sucks away my remaining breath
now i have one thing left

shards of broken mirrors reflect our tangled  past
grab a piece and thrust it through my sinking heart
it's all that's left of me

i bleed out the pain
but it never goes away
just collects in a useless puddle of shame and regret
eternally mocking my foolish acts of years past

my heart is sprawled out like a dying rose
as I arrange the petals into place
you pluck them away from my withered hand
take my soul -- but leave my heart to die
for love is unknown to the human mind

it's an elusive ghost
a mass of sorrow alongside a gleaming sliver of passion
only the suckers love -- only the worthy are loved

The Burning

tear me up inside, slash my burning veins
stab my pulsing heart -- love will always fade
secrets are never lost,  forever remembered

don't waste your life being a "good friend"
for love is a selfish thing
enjoyed by one, never two

love is a filthy deception
tempts us, tricks us, burns us
the apple of pleasure never fails to indulge a sucker's credulous heart
the wise win the prize, the foolish are left to die

all alone in a bottomless abyss
no savior awaits in billowing grace
life is an intimacy, love is a lie

 little girl, little girl
don't you cry
mommy will stop the burning
everything will be fine

dab at my bloody wounds, breathe in the toxic fumes
i've captured you under my haunting gaze
sucking the life out of you

mommy, it stings
i'm smoldering under these flames
save me, mommy! save my soul!

you, little one, cannot be saved
for love has captured your worthless mind
and ignited it with your tears

fade away, little one, fade into the shadows
join the suckers lurking hell's hottest depths
orange flames light up scorched remains
highlighting your crucial mistakes

the burning, the burning!
i hear a stifled cry
little one, you're gone
your ignorance punished you
i'm closing my fiery tentacles around your pasty throat

from a distance mommy chuckles to herself
what a stupid child she had created
thank god she's gone -- now she is free