Don’t Let Me Fall

Tempest raging
See it in the mirror
Go out, electricity
Fills me
Feeding me with fear

Peace Now, receive it
Comfort, of the dying
Icy wind, swirling
Inside of me
Don’t you feel it too?

Don’t take me, Don’t shake me
Don’t break me, Don’t make me fall, and
I see the ground tearing
All around me
Don’t make me fall
Don’t take me, Don’t shake me
Don’t break me, Don’t make me fall, and
I see the ground tearing
Catch me if I start to fall...

--interlude—

Don’t take me, Don’t shake me
Don’t break me, Don’t make me fall
Don’t take me, Don’t shake me
Don’t break me, Don’t make me fall, and
How could I have let
This happen to me?
So strong in my convictions
And yet so weak
Don’t praise me as higher
Than I really am
I’m not a God
I’m just a woman.

Please Mother

Please mother, please tell me where are you
Please mother, you never told me what to do.
Please father, please tell me where are you
Please father, you never showed me what to do
And here I stand, confronting what is real,
And here I stand, so young so frail so cold so pale,
And I never got a chance to say goodbye.

You knew that it would all end someday.
Did you think it wouldn’t happen any way?
All alone inside the halls of empty doors
What I needed all along, was it really yours
To give to me? Did you really know?
Did you really care?
And now you’ve left me,
Standing in the shadows of my own sin.

So you walked and you talked and you looked the other way.
You stored up your pride and you went your merry way.
I stood in your shadows but you didn’t have much to say.
You couldn’t take the time just to tell me anyway!

Soft whispers of night befall me
Draining Love and life and tears from me
Painted taunts, ash covered walls, before me
Of Saints of God that I will never see.
Oh, please mother, how could all this be real?
Oh, please father, change or feel the way I feel
Oh! Why did you leave His and my side?

Anything I wanted, you gave
Should I have asked about the complications of the grave?
You gave not of the one thing I need still.
From this slumber, wake me up.
Is this really real, this
Hell I’m under?
Oh, you’ve lead me here, but where are you now? I’ve
Missed you so much
But in a place that’s without Love, how could that be?

You never told me.

Whitewashed Tomb

Professor of principal
Sovereign ego
Proprietor of Sin
Whiten a fresh face,
A fresh coat of shelter over the mask
White faces dance thickly
Within the bowels of darkness. Inside,
Dead man’s bones,
So tight you hold within yourself, oh
Woe to you.

For all your darkness - lurks inside
And from the eye - you cannot hide
Is every bit of your body
Bleached with blood? Who are you

To here defy – within your heart
A pilgrims start – to break the yoke
Is every inch of your body
Bleached with blood? Who are you?

---guitar interlude & solo ---

Professor of principal
Sovereign ego
Proprietor of Sin
Whiten a fresh face, a fresh coat of shelter over the mask
White faces dance thickly within the bowels of darkness. Inside,
Dead man’s bones, so tight hold within, unclean wickedness,
Wretched self.

For all my darkness - lurks inside
And from the eye - I cannot hide
Is every bit of my body
Bleached with blood? I shall not try

To here defy – within my heart
A pilgrims start – to break the yoke
Make every inch of my body
Bleached with blood? For who am I?

Sign Of XII

At the height of your power
There was no place for me.
Repressed beyond imagination
Cursed for all the world to see.

Churning, tumultuous fire
Breathing down my neck,
Never will you see
The light of day.

Watch now,
Hear me, My voice cuts you
Like a blade.

You run helpless.
I shall rise
As you sink
Into your shade.