In Vain

[Daddy Bear]

The truth seems irrefutable

 

I've lost all that is beautiful

 

And if this isn't wrong

 

Then there is no damn such thing

 

 

When I thought that I could be with you

 

I held my breath, now I've turned blue

 

I need somewhere to lie

 

Just a place where I can scream

 

 

Water, flow

 

Pull me low

 

Where I cannot feel her hand in mine

 

Pour down my throat and drown this stubborn heart

 

Hurry, knife

 

Cut my life

 

'Cause I still could swear we're intertwined

 

Although we are fallen eternities apart

 

 

Stillness reigns on the battlefield

 

The blood of the angels cold, congealed

 

It was given for peace

 

Now their heads are on parade

 

 

Victory wasn't heaven-sent

 

There will not be any monument

 

To the innocence lost

 

And the sacrifices made

 

 

Poison, quick

 

Make me sick

 

Or I'll overdose on travesty

 

Swell up my tongue

 

'Til my cries are heard no more

 

Come on, death

 

Suck my breath

 

Break my neck in violent sodomy

 

Wrestle me down

 

To the gleaming killing floor

 

 

And when the candlelight processional

 

Wound its way past the vacant confessional

 

Where the prayer beads had been scattered on the tiles

 

Did the faithful hit upon the irony

 

Of their own shared passive culpability

 

Singing of love so pure with frozen smiles

 

Stained-glass martyrdom beckoning from the aisles