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Man down

This hardened shell is broken

My fate is bound to what I've done

Regrets - I shuffle down the hallway

Precious time - It's all gone overboard

Here is your calm down

Here is your calm down pill

I'll never be the same -

it'll never be the same, the same

With eyes open - my body's floating down the river

This life - What have I confined you for?

It's all inside - it's all in silence

When the reaper gets its way

A million thoughts are swept away

And then you leave it all

You leave it all behind

And maybe next time we'll meet again

And maybe I'll be less of a bitter man

When I feel more

I refuse to pay the ferryman -

I'm so attached to my temple

He has to burn it down to get me

Ebony demon, shriek all you want -

I'm not tagging along

The shade, the burning blackness - it is my protector

Fear before the fall - I can't grasp it all

But at least I'm trying

A light, a smoldering cinder

Getting colder, ashen

And letting all this go

I'm not letting go

I'm not really done here

I won't let

I won't let go

Life's too short to be wrong

And maybe next time we'll meet again

And maybe I'll be less of a bitter man

And if I could do it all over again

I'd be the same man all over again

When I feel more