Raise the Gates Lyrics

I'm stoned and I've lost it all again

Or was I so out of it that I just gave in

I won't speak up in my own defense

I've got no innocence

You can drag me out, you can say your piece

You'd be amazed how well I sleep

If this is what you want, go to

And I'll be forgiven for smiling in my tomb

And you'll be forgotten for loving me like you do

Tonight the empire falls again

And I'm on my last cigarette

As they're clearing the halls

You were right, not with ten thousand men

Could I keep the bleeding in

But I raised the gates and I took your call

You'd be surprised how far I'm willing to fall

If love is what you want, go to

And I'll be forgiven for smiling in my tomb

And you'll be forgotten for loving me like you do

I saw oceans carve mountains out

And mountains take armies down

And waves crash on the shore of my cup and

I saw, I saw in the distant crowd

A face I could just make out

As the gold flaked off and the towers burned

And the music stopped and my vision blurred

And every last table turned

If war is all you want, go to

And I'll be forgiven for smiling in my tomb

But who will forgive you for loving me like you do

And who will remember you loving me like I do