In the night, as we wait
A race against starlit fate
Has begun.

Where should I go?
To the left, where nothing is right?
Or to the right, where nothing is left?

Here has gone wrong, there has gone right
How will we know if there never is light
For I can’t see the day
And you’re slowly fading away
The song of a fallen dove
We used to fly, overcoming life from above.

In olden dreams there lived a man, a man who saw it all
To me, he said, ‘Beware the whispers in the night, truth be told you’ll fall.
Heed not the shadows of the deep
lest they haunt you when you sleep.’

But as the sun rises, casting its dawning fire
Upon the ashes of a fallen empire
Looking back upon who we used to be
And realize that we are too blind to see
What we search for
Lies right at our door.

And by now we must know
Fairy tales are not found
Here in this place where light does not glow
We are sure to run aground.
Our fate is not written in the walls
And I can stop you as you fall

But you told me
‘If you love me…
let me die…’

Nothing left, can’t stop the bleeding
Borne away on death’s dark wing
It hurts, right here, upon my heart
Realizing that it’s for you from the start
I’ve been looking, for a way
So you can see the light of day
To bring you back to life,
To escape darkness’s sharp knife.

And as twilight dawns upon the lands
I stare down at two empty hands
And as the sky begins to cry
I remember that you didn’t have to die

But here I am, broken inside
A victim of love’s cyanide

Light in the sky, light in the dark,
all flames grow from a spark.
But fires can go out and stars can die
and light does not hide the tears that we cry.
Though we can find our way
by the light of day,
not all lies in the dawn’s rising light.
The wisest there have seen the fight,
have gone from shadows into the day
For only they can see it all and never fade away
Faded to twilight before endless gray.

Dark in our hearts, dark from the light,
this world’s becoming started in night.
The creation of night and day,
neither was greater, though many will say
that in the dawn, we can see it all
we can hide in the dark, from whispers and those who fall
Not all lies in the twilight’s dying light.
The wisest there have seen the fight,
have gone from shadows into the day
For only they can see it all and never fade away
Faded to twilight before endless gray.

Our time is made of lefts and rights,
of yes and no, days and nights.
For who shall divine, in the dead of night
the lies from truth, the darkness from light?

I know it’s not easy, turning our page
I know it’s not easy, taking the stage
But here, in fate, our ice and fire
rule a rising empire.

And I know I’ll see you, again in my sleep
And it’s you who reminded me, calling from the deep
that if everyone cared and nobody cried
and if everyone loved and nobody lied
We’d see the day where everyone lived and nobody died.

And learn we’re never lonely,
But know we’re always alone.
It’s those we love who leave us,
Those we don’t who stay
For love is but a loveless thing,
Less black and white than gray.