Flame of Heaven, Flame of Hell Lyrics

To a story that began around ten years ago

That broken mirror abandoned as I forgot my way home

The roles we played in our stories, dichotomies of heaven and hell

Upon this stage we have danced for an eternity

As I look to the stars towards an unstable heaven

There are the things I've concealed, something I feel was important

A limbo of my very own

Although I do not know why

Their gentle light never faded

In this never-ending night

And sometimes I feel a gaze as the stars guide my path

I walk in circles as I cycle 'round this downtrodden past

In a pain so familiar

I know I've been here before

I hear a child cry behind me

Before I realized where

I knew that I was in hell

In stilted horror I stood

A God that I knew all too well

Wearing those same fucking masks

You asked for one more dance

And I took your hand

Flame of heaven before me

Let us dance!

On this stage of eternity

Immortalized

The steps so oddly familiar

I danced with you

Around the truth

A pain that I once knew

And when the curtain falls at the end of it all

Will we choose to heed the trumpet's call?

In a cycle renewed, I recall again

How much I wanted to kill you

One step closer but not quite there

I saw the stars up above as I awoke on that path once again

There was a house before me, something I vaguely remembered

But as I stepped towards it, a child held me back

And then the scene changes - there's that mask on my face

I thought I saw you bristle as our eyes meet once again

Obstructed by the spotlight, I feel a piercing gaze

And a pain in my chest

It's oddly intimate to know my enemy so well

To read their every step and know their reasoning

I felt you tense as I approached, and now my hand is outstretched

We are so fucking broken - this feels romantic

There's a fire so painful it frays the edges of sanity

And the fear that we felt then is incomparable

Egged on by watchful masses who know us only by these masks

Upon this theatre stage - I play the Devil

Flame of hell that I once was

Now take my hand!

On this stage of insanity

Immortalized

The steps so oddly comforting

I danced with you

Around the truth

The hurt that we both knew

And when the curtain falls, at the end of it all

Will we choose to face the judgement's call?

Another cycle renewed, I recall again

In the depths of this blinding pain - I hated you

Around in circles for the last ten years

A weight that never went away, I can't recall my life before it

There's that mirror in my mind that I know that I destroyed

Collecting dust as it stood there, forgotten

I know there must be a reason why every road leads back here

These jagged fragments of time, I gathered even as I bled

I want to know the truth, and piece that mirror together

And through a broken reflection

I saw that child

And I remembered your smile

Through hazy shards of my memory

I heard your voice as I knew it

That shy but bubbly laugh

Eyes that betrayed a hidden pain

Something that only we knew

I remembered that I loved you

And the pain came in waves as I sifted through the stories

I was so scared to see the truth - I looked away from you

And as I ran in these circles, spanning for ten fucking years

I'd never realized the mark that I'd left on you

There was a guilt that chained us both here, to the masks that we wore

This pain our only connection on this demented stage

Not the roles that we played, I know I saw you as human

A child just like I was

You were my first love

My love, please

Will you take my hand?

I'd like to ask you to grant me

This one last dance

To the person I loved

Even through all of the pain

Even as I burned away

I chose to dance with you

And when the curtains fall at the end of it all

I'll give you one soft kiss, before I take a bow

To end this cycle I know, I must face this truth

I could never let go because I loved you

To a childhold left behind

Reflections I had abandoned

To the stories we created

Over all of these years

To the hurt that we caused

And the scars that have made us

I want to tell you

I'm sorry.