Tear my heart open
I'll sew myself shut
Crooked stitches and messy threads
pulling scarred skin tight tight
so tight I can't breathe.
Rip it to shreds,
shred it 'till RIP
you lose, game over,
better luck next time.
Sharp claws sink into tender flesh
pulsing weakly to the fading drum.
Where did you go, soldier, what did you learn?
Did they pull the veil of innocence away from your eyes?
Did it hurt when you fell
so broken and alone?
Did anyone kiss you back to health,
did anyone miss you?
The storm's but begun, get ready for war
and fight to the end
This heart is failing, hit once too many
the bullets of steel will not unlodge.
Can you fix it, soldier, can you stop it?
Will you fit the pieces of this broken heart
back together?
I cannot.

~*~*~*~ the amethyst has risen ~*~*~*~

I know you
Once upon a time
When the world was perfect
We danced our dance
and knew each other's souls.
What happened to the world?
Immortality has never been this painful
As I watch the world pass me by.
I am lost in the past
Encased in glass
as you have followed perfection -
as I have found the lesser of two evils -
as we fall apart.
What happened to our world?
It was perfect
But then again,
who said perfection lasts?

~*~*~*~ the amethyst has risen ~*~*~*~

Don't you love it when a song just about sums up your feelings?

What day is it
And in what month
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

Cause it's you and me and all of the people
Nothing to do, nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you

All of the things that I want to say
Just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words, you got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here

Cause it's you and me and all of the people
With nothing to do, nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off you

Something about you now
I can't quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right

Cause it's you and me and all of the people
With nothing to do, nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of

You and me and all of the people
With nothing to do nothin to prove and
It's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it
And in what month
This clock never seemed so alive

~*~*~*~ the amethyst has risen ~*~*~*~

Touche Brutus
You, with your innocent kiss
friend of mine no more.
Et tu? You, to whom I spilled my heart?
The knife is dull and sticks
it will not dislodge anytime soon.
Point for you, there goes the game
Do you enjoy the victory
as much as I suffer the loss?

~*~*~*~ the amethyst has risen ~*~*~*~

Is it so hard to understand
my fall from grace?
Is it so hard to see that this
smile is a fake and these
words are not real and
What is real, now?
You aren't - that's for certain
and Nothing is for certain
so who are you and what have you done to my heart?
Because I was sure I had it just a minute ago
But now it's in your bloody clutches
and you're not letting go and I can't let go
and why can't you just let it go?
I've fallen from Eden
and I'm here on this earth
on my way to hell so why bother trying
but I will try 'cause you asked
just one time.
I've fallen from Eden
but you are the one who tore the wings off my back.

~*~*~*~ the amethyst has risen ~*~*~*~