A Farewell

So, I guess this is it At the end of the road Nothing left for me here Seems cliche, I know Now, I wander off into the place beyond Echoes of a lifetime lived foolishly ring out Bring me nearer to it Nearer to the love I will never have Now, I go

So, this is it Pass through the black hole My being re-arranged into particles of infinitude The pain is gone But what of the ones I’ve left behind There’s no time, no thought Kaleidoscopic ecstacy The pain is gone Doesn’t that account for something? But what of the ones I’ve left behind Their pain is still subject to time I know, but I had to do something Something

On the brink of seeing Realms undiscovered by man Traveling into the aether Not what they told you Not what you imagined No direction Consciousness is free I wasn’t brought to the feet of a master I wasn’t judged to go above or below No Rain when I die Nothing like I’d thought it’d be Nothing what they taught to me Pain is released into atmosphere Into infinity

Is the end a new beginning? A cycle, or a curse? Is there redemption for our souls? And all the pain we’ve caused? I can’t tell you The connection is lost You can’t reach me Even if you flew above the sun Above the sun I’ve been trying to show you a sign But I don’t know how to reach back into life The connection is lost Is the end a new beginning? A cycle, or a curse? Is there redemption for our souls? Or whatever this existence is? I can’t tell you The connection is lost, severed I had a feeling Since I was twelve years old

Strongest among my regrets Held onto even after death If I could fix it somehow A reverse umbilical from the heavens to the earth Now, now, it’ll be alright The pain is gone, since you have died But I still feel hers There’s a place in Hell for me I should be there, burning Love betrayed Time has starved this But I still know That I can’t reverse the damage I can’t control By the power I have left See to it that she knows that I am sorry A reverse umbilical, from the heavens to the earth

Weep for the death of loved ones And remember their image What once was close, now is far What once was close Back to the black before birth Weep for loved ones passed beyond And hold the memories close There is no substitute For saying what you mean while you still can Like a moth to a flame I was drawn to the end of me It was the only thing I could think to do To stop the misery Back to the black before birth Back to the black before birth