Elegy of Emptiness Lyrics

Reaching for the ways of old

Preaching to a flame that has gone cold

If I were blind, you must have been mute

I still couldn't have missed that much dispute

But I need you still though, if only to shout

You see, I'm in need of something to write about

I lose the presence more and more each day

Pretend that it's all for naught

Reason it is way treading I ought

To anyone I got nothing to say

To many questions are headed this way

And I come to regret what little I say

It's like I hear what they think: "Is he like that again today?"

I can keep thinking 'til there's nothing else left at all

And this song is an elegy for all the things to each other we've done

It must have been wrong, but now it's gone

Hymning a lullaby for pain

Knowing the lie has died; we killed the flame

I thought I would outlast the past

But my darkness caught that too, alas

And I lit a flame that'll never last

For a love that never came, but passed

But it's coming apart, so take one last look at my heart

Seraphs not half so pleased as us

(Envious?)

Yes! That was the reason for the wind from the sea;

Came swift to set you free – and Asmodeus stayed here with me

'Cause I caught a darkness from winning you easily enough

But if I knew the price for seeing it through - loving me and you:

I caught it worse than you