Fixed on a base of weakening stone The cracks form in bleak patterns Barely visible yet running so deep All around they're caving in and they fall Unable to stand alone I'll turn my back... Can you see their weakness in their eyes ? They're souls of a failing purpose Have I created all of this ? To escape... It will defeat To remain... It will succumb over me ! Calamity traces my own path All hope fails in just mere seconds Seen only moments before Fleeing with haste, yet they return unwillingly Unable to stand alone - Placing their blame While disgraced - Their hand in the matter What a horrid sight - What terrible fate When a tired mind - Twists it all The cold dust awaits - To take to the air And choke it - On what remains I've prayed for freedom - Freedom from myself Flee now into sleep... With the thoughts of never to awake It's not that easy to defeat... Face the misfortune and partake the pain... By the wayside we fall ! We fall into ruin ! In the depths of my soul they shudder The fractures increasing, they're running deeper And those that I carry begin to slip... All their need and their turmoil, I cannot shoulder ! And the need to keep running grows stronger each day And the wanting to forget, and to smother the pain A lasting scar will always be... The reminder of lost years and our lasting mistakes In the depths of my soul they shudder The fractures increasing, they're running deeper And those that I carry begin to slip... All their need and their turmoil, I cannot shoulder ! Fixed on a base of weakening stone The cracks form in bleak patterns Barely visible yet running so deep All around they're caving in and they fall