Sven Rhoads

Our eyes met when we looked beyond the metal cage
A glance of uncertainty and of unknowing fear
Sitting side by side a bond was forged on life's stage
Injected into my heart you were one I held so dear
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In this room where I stare at these walls
Portraits of what I need to achieve before me
Reminders of all I am and how far I've come
The clock peels the hours until freedom calls
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I've felt the beating return
The single spark to let it all burn
You stand beside me, devotion in your eyes
And deep inside me I could never deny
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Eyes open before the dark stream
How it all feels like a familiar dream
The journey is coming to a close
A brand new place I swear I know
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Behind the blue that looks out into the universe
Seeking the sanctuary of the soul
No more trying to make the best out of the worst
Only needing to take back control
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This fight that I must come to win
Against the hands of gravity
The waves are growing taller
As the seas begin to rise
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This night that has weighed heavily on my heart
A cardiac arresting dream that's eating me alive
In the fight for my life when everything goes dark
At the twilight hour its a war just to survive
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Medusa made a man from her sinister gaze
The cursed sorrowed soul that I now call me
No love flows in these veins, nothing in this heart
I walk alone in the pouring rain, together to never part
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I feel the crave that cannot be denied
Like barbed wire wrapped around my mind
Your seductive eyes and scorching smile
Melting the will to remain in control
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I see lines are drawn with fire and gasoline
All the monsters with their eyes so green
Severed the ties that once made humanity
I stand from afar to get a taste of clarity
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You burned my world and left no stone unturned
All that was me has been blown away in the wind
Destroyed by the betrayer with silver tongue
This is not over, I cannot let you win
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Skin as soft as velvet caressing my heart
Reaching deeper than where any have reached
Eyes like stars on the ocean to reach into forever
Singing the songs of sirens in seductive speech
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Alone I gaze at the figure before me
Who is this person that looks back
Has my image fallen into obscurity
This creature has come from the black
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I feel your soft skin as I take your hand in mine
Please hear these words that hid under my tongue
For this oath I take is not the words of the divine
But from the beat in my chest that pounds just as one
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Treading through the wilderness of life
He traveled across the reaches of his mind
Constantly the battles have befallen him
Still he has an axe to grind
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Take look so deep inside
As you release the tears you cry
I see the sorrow on your face
And it cuts me so deep that I cant hide
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Wounded deep you feel your soul begin the bleed
Looking so far ahead for the solution that you need
Left in the blind are all those things you have
Trying to be the optimist but sorrows driving you mad
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On the river once again and soon gone out to sea
Time seems to stand still on the strangest journey

Every twist and turn
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Drifting away as I lay this beaten body down
Inside and out has been a drag through hell
Resting on the surface as I shed this skin
Between here and there where the soul does dwell
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I'm ready to take the bull by the horns
Facing tomorrow just to be reborn
There's no one who can defeat me
No god will tell me who I am
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