He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Welcome friends
To seconds lost
And starts that won't begin
To twisted eyes, that see inside
Rules that've always been
A simple task
A see-through mask
That questions where and why
We shed our skin, to occupy
And keep our peace of mind
Bring only what you need to survive
They find an image, from lines on my face
They stole it from the pages that kept my place
I stand on the outside, I gotta get in
I crawl inside
Just to begin again
So unfair
This broken smile, that keeps us all aware
I'd wish for thoughts and scene's we've lost
And times we'll never share
I'll ask you now, to show me how
To fill the circle in
What tells us all, there is no fall
And the story never ends
Bring only what you need to survive
They find an image, from lines on my face
They stole it from the pages that kept my place
I stand on the outside, we gotta get in
I crawl inside
Just to begin again
They never walked
They never cared
Always don't understand, I wanna be in
What will you be?
What will you die?
How will you know?
They suck it from me
(Demons)
They took it from me
(Demons)
They made a demon
(Demons)
They made it from me
Demons
Demons
They find an image, from lines on my face
They stole it from the pages that kept my place
I stand on the outside, we gotta get in
I crawl inside
Just to begin again
To seconds lost
And starts that won't begin
To twisted eyes, that see inside
Rules that've always been
A simple task
A see-through mask
That questions where and why
We shed our skin, to occupy
And keep our peace of mind
Bring only what you need to survive
They find an image, from lines on my face
They stole it from the pages that kept my place
I stand on the outside, I gotta get in
I crawl inside
Just to begin again
So unfair
This broken smile, that keeps us all aware
I'd wish for thoughts and scene's we've lost
And times we'll never share
I'll ask you now, to show me how
To fill the circle in
What tells us all, there is no fall
And the story never ends
Bring only what you need to survive
They find an image, from lines on my face
They stole it from the pages that kept my place
I stand on the outside, we gotta get in
I crawl inside
Just to begin again
They never walked
They never cared
Always don't understand, I wanna be in
What will you be?
What will you die?
How will you know?
They suck it from me
(Demons)
They took it from me
(Demons)
They made a demon
(Demons)
They made it from me
Demons
Demons
They find an image, from lines on my face
They stole it from the pages that kept my place
I stand on the outside, we gotta get in
I crawl inside
Just to begin again
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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