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  I roam these alleyways blind Cloaked by the golden candlelight The frost bite punctures my fantasies  And humors their fatal archetypes These chronic, unsolved mysteries  Passed off as scarlet letters in an old town This warmonger siege is my making Blood soaked on the back of a dragon As these piercing flaws shine  Like silver linings in the midst of chaos So does the purging judgement  And confounding absence burn through the ground In solemn solidarity do the sands of time Pour into my cup and shatter my innocent pride Far does the Odyssey carry me on the highest of tides Till my melodrama knocks the air out of my insensitive lies I never tried having a life  Worth more than a fool's pride With the advent of my own cynicism I repaired my ego till it touched the pinnacle of spite My towering daydreams Condemned me to reclusion I fell back onto my apathy And let the Odyssey forge a new one The fate of my journey to peace Rests on the balances of broken e...

 I used to see rainbows of hope in everybody's eyes Still a long way to go, so many rocks left not thrown I started shaking when my hand started scraping I was reaching the bottom, the harness loosening inch by inch It's so tragic all these teenage antics Pretend your thirty, get your hands dirty The older you get, the shackles break And soon you're soaring to the sky, unsure of where to fly Down that street where time still freezes but now  You're standing on the outside of it screaming I used to believe that everyone knew the path to succeed every fallen dream But the bricks broke and shoes tore, weighed down by expectant foes All the silver spoons began to rust, dropped in a pool of unrequited love And all the masochists ran away because cruelty stopped being fun one day There's so much magic in teenage antics Pretend your twelve and stay home instead No one likes a tell tale, good will slander Sit in the front and watch bad habits tempt them With diamond rings ...

 Isn't it dangerous to sit on the edge of time? Dancing with the devil and you stepped way out of line Treachery seems like a gift from heaven Babylon they tell me you have fallen for someone I was every thorn in your glorious gardens Hanging on too long I slipped into the cauldron Of all your words poisoned beyond recognition Babylon unlike you I will be forgotten I'm tied to the delirium that my head will never be too heavy I depend on the talisman that has carried my shoes for me Dwelling in the shadows of the mighty Halcyon Babylon with your walls so high you didn't see the oblivion I have been plundered of all the things that bejeweled me Now I'm as light as a feather and as heavy as a memory I was too stupid to laugh and too scared to jump Babylon you taught me never to trust someone The melody played in the background and the words just came to me I'm ancient enough to know why they never set you free You have now been romanticized into a metaphor Babylon tha...