All lyrics by Shadow, copyright 2002.   These lyrics may only be reprinted with proper credit.

Tortured youth eats away your soul
For the memory's truth is so sickening cold
So betrayed by touch and defiled within
Now the serpent rises to claim its kin

He says: "Although time has gone by
Although you've grown and I'll soon die
Life shall never forgive it seems
Who you were echoes in your dreams
Happiness is a trap so run
How can you deserve anyone
For the mark left on you still stays
Burning through your heart for always..."

You survived, even found true love
For years balanced pain, strove to rise above
Now your fear returns, loathing self again
And the serpent rises to claim its kin

He says: "Although time has gone by
Although you've grown and I'll soon die
Life shall never forgive it seems
Who you were echoes in your dreams
Happiness is a trap so run
How can you deserve anyone
For the mark left on you still stays
Burning through your heart for always..."

Said I long for my one
Every moment without you alone
It's the same lie we've all heard before
Let the snake die, marks show no more...

Said I long for my one
Every moment without you alone
It's the same lie we've all heard before
Let the snake die, marks show no more...

Run in my room and lock the door
Hide in my tears forevermore

Reflected in now distant eyes
I was once alive
But now hidden in my darkest guise
Hope cannot survive

The memories that echo still
The dreams of love fate ceased to will

Reflected in now distant eyes
I was once alive
But now hidden in my darkest guise
Hope cannot survive

There's nothing left at all...

The past betrays memory's gaze
The grass has changed, familiar strange
Home no more, ghosts unpure
The child I know died long ago

Once upon childhood's dawn
We rode the sky, now nothing flies
They say: "Wake from the dream, break from the spell; innocence fades, it's just as well"
But the truth I find... through time we leave ourselves behind

Twilight dawns and echoes night
The wind blows cold, the moon shimmers light
And all these things are hidden from me

The darkest shadows come as one
Hidden wish of things to come
Lost beyond reality
Lost beyond what is to be

For it is granted within time
When everything is left behind
When all there is is a dying dream
Then you will see just what I've seen

In the farthest corner can be found
The tears that once fell to the ground
Now it slowly drifts away
By leaving one can only say

That all there is has passed by
Storm is coming from the sky
When all there is is a dying dream
Then you will see just what I've seen




And what would be has come to pass
What was the first becomes the last
When all there is is a dying dream
Then you will see just what I mean

Gaia weeps silently under her fading sky
Her soft breeze breathes warmer now, but against a blind eye
One once said time is money, yet we see money stealing time
Gradual genosuicide for that extra dime

Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?

Hear me now my children for the moment, it grows near
I've given you all I have, but now there's nothing left, I fear
Fire and ice once swept my skin, and life began anew
Now I see that it must be; the same fate awaits you

Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?

Can you feel it rising up through our souls
The epilogue to our folly; our just reward
Dark clouds will cast shadows over tinted skies
Take this final calm before the end to say goodbye


I can feel it

Oh Goddess, why must we wage
Self-hatred, our silent cage
The model, the perfect doll
Starvation to have it all

But we carry on
And hope to fall upon
Truly equal ground
That we've never found

We hide behind a mask
Shall we break it at last
To burn the magazine
And bulemic cuisine

But we carry on
And hope to fall upon
Truly equal ground
That we've never found

Designer casket full
Cosmetics quite ornate
"She looks so natural..."
"At least she's lost some weight..."

Still we carry on
And hope to fall upon
A love for our kind
That we'll someday find

Innocence and hope
Seeds of life are drawn
It has begun

Unborn, unplanned one
Forgive what we must say
And fly away

Away...

Sorrow grips my heart
Foolishness of youth
Now face the truth

Future we won't have
Wonder of what may
All fly away

Away...

Blood vixen stalks the night
Eyes blazing, gazing -- pleasure's passage rite
Sucking mortal men dry by the silver crest
Willing suicide to fall under her white breast

Black leather lace, die for a taste
Temptation grabs you at its worst
Redden her dark roots, under her boots
She flattens you without remorse

On your hands, on your knees
Serve me now, and be free
Drink to me, drink to you
Drink you dry, I've fucked you too




On your hands, on your knees
Serve me now, and be free
Drink to me, drink to you
Drink you dry, I've fucked you too

Distant torches beckon near
"Kill the witch, kill the bitch!" yell voices without fear
The townspeople move forward, all the strongest men of arms
Approaching her lair, faces forgetting of alarm

She smiles at the game, they hold strong the same
Knowing retribution lies within this nightfall
They battle away, but she tires of play
Rapes and sucks them all

On your hand, on your knees
Serve me now, and never fall
Drink to me, drink to you
Drink you dry, I've fucked you all


Blood vixen stalks the night

In times since gone by
Long before the pain
We shared a touch and a gaze
And we made the rain

Time and trust
Always once a charade
Our magic now brought them to life
True love ruled the day

What has become of us
Alone again
Forever was promised
But what to do at eternity's end

Life grants little joy
Throughout great misery
Never let go when handed the reigns
Of immortality

What has become of us
Alone again
Forever was promised
But what to do at eternity's end




Love's forgotten castaways
That time forgets and truth betrays
If breath remains then chance as well
Come with me, rain end this hell