The deceit of the ordinary
Tall tales all around
Whispers of what we want
Hiding the cold realities
Of life
Everyday sirens
Draw us closer to death
One lost hope at a time
Vampiric banalities
Mesmerize
Taking our lives
One drop at a time

I'm tired of trying
To get over you
I'm tired of trying
To stop loving you
I'm tired of trying
To keep you away
I'm tired
Of being me without you

The visions keep coming
One after the other
Me in a coffin
You with another
Don't take this as literal
Don't take this as fact
I've chosen a new path
I'm on a new tack

She spun her tale
With practiced easy
Filling him
With what he wanted to hear
What he wanted to see
And imagine

She knew the pathways
Of his heart
She knew the levers
And wheels
Of his imagination

Death surrounds me
Haunts me
Hunts me
Feeding off
the sins of my heart

Loneliness whispers to me
Begging me
Prodding me
Feeding off
The hope of tomorrow

Despair knows me by name
Cawing
Raven like
Feeding off
My need to be heard

And then you came
To comfort my darkness
To still the whispers
And silence my needs
Never fed
Never satiated
You ask for one thing only
You ask
For me

I think
I look
I feel
It's all slipping away
One after the other
I cannot think
I cannot look
All I can do is feel
And I do not want that

The end is the end is the end is the end
I'm tired of this wandering
Life without end
Save me from me
From this end without end
Save me from tomorrow's
Promise and then
Save me from yesterday's
Failure, end upon end
Save for me today
An end to the when
Save for me some hope
And then the end
Of empty retreat
Can be my end upon end upon end upon end