Treading water I hope to stay a while The devil inside you smiles Growing smaller Already drained away The longer I wait the more you corrode Drift towards the waters edge Let the currents take you Barely living to be spared Hear your voice stark taunts anew And as fools go You'll learn like all the rest Has it met you? Had it's way with you yet? Peace be with you when you wake You'll know perfects no victory Grow to fit the changing day The rest is left up to you And I bet you never find what you are looking for And I think we're better off this way I hope you never see the world I wish to be Though it might do you some good I wish the world would burn down soon Road to paradise Paved with your life Send this beast down the stream Devil in my smile Fighting to deny your tragic cause Thoughts from yesterday Play like masquerade How we were worn so thin Deafening these days Getting in the way of searching souls Wait for the voice to subside and leave me alone It speaks to you of shadowed aims Day must make night Insists of you, you don't know why Won't you look at both sides All these questions They lead back to one spot It's within you Whether you want it or not And I bet you never find what you are looking for And I think we're better off this way I hope you never see the world I wish to be Though it might do you some good I wish the world would burn down soon Road to paradise Paved with your life Send this beast down the stream Devil in my smile Fighting to deny your tragic cause Thoughts from yesterday Play like masquerade How we were worn so thin Deafening these days Getting in the way of searching souls And the wickedness is fading from his eyes We all reside in darkness too Through the headache I think I see a light Thank the saviour with the wicked smile With confidence I'm opening my eyes And I'm using them for the very first time Without a word I'm walking for the door My only guides were the songs you've sung Won't you tell me all the things you never said? Won't you show me all the things I never saw? Won't you let your blackened hatred wash away with the tide? I am grateful for the life that I have lived I am all that I've become because of you I think only of the better days Not what you put us through I'll miss your touch though it left me paralysed I bite my tongue words of loss till goodbye I'm glad we never lost what we were fighting for And you'll find it someday One lie under the breath and I can keep you safe The best we can do I return to The Mire