The Beautiful Despair
So many years, so many years I've climbed
The clock is winding down and
I've only just learned to keep time
In the night, in the night there’s that taste of
Memories sweet and ripe like
Relief after a near-death scare escape
In the beautiful despair
I’m grateful like one released from hate
One by one, one by one into a spine
The acts become a ladder of bones
That ascends back to my mind
Finally, finally I see the veil drawn back
The stop twisting gears spin for me
In their clockwork rhythm clack
In the beautiful despair
We’re fated to turn as long as we last
Arrive at the moment where it all breaks down
Listen to the air that trembles with its sound
Nothing feels like the deed once done
Breathing loud after breaking the drum
Silence after freeing your tongue
That is everything, you are one
That is all, you are one
In the beautiful despair
Looking back from the height the pain was really kind
It was only set free from the cage
After I’d done all the crimes
In the beautiful despair
You find that your eyes are no longer blind
The clock is winding down and
I've only just learned to keep time
In the night, in the night there’s that taste of
Memories sweet and ripe like
Relief after a near-death scare escape
In the beautiful despair
I’m grateful like one released from hate
One by one, one by one into a spine
The acts become a ladder of bones
That ascends back to my mind
Finally, finally I see the veil drawn back
The stop twisting gears spin for me
In their clockwork rhythm clack
In the beautiful despair
We’re fated to turn as long as we last
Arrive at the moment where it all breaks down
Listen to the air that trembles with its sound
Nothing feels like the deed once done
Breathing loud after breaking the drum
Silence after freeing your tongue
That is everything, you are one
That is all, you are one
In the beautiful despair
Looking back from the height the pain was really kind
It was only set free from the cage
After I’d done all the crimes
In the beautiful despair
You find that your eyes are no longer blind