Shadows of night suffocating the light Hiding the stalking decay Imbalance of will, Youth that kill for the thrill, This concrete gulag chokes its prey, Could you sleep now? Could you dream now? Screams far away are getting closer each day, Eat in to your soul, rot your soul, As if just to taunt or evil to flaunt, Surrounding the weak just for fun The gates are open, I'm getting further from my memory, Its coming back from inside of the gates of sanity The damned never learn and our city will burn, It screams out in pain everyday, A husk of the past, Paradise never lasts, Instilled schadenfreude betrays A woman cries into the night, Another soul is lost to might, Concrete grey and blood red sky, This cities sound will never leave my mind I sit and i watch as my home it is lost, I hold the new dawn in my arms, Our futures to write and our foes we must fight, Hoping the son clears the sky I've got a feeling I'm leaving this mind and soul behind