Smother

I lived my life alone in contempt of all the others
When fires began to fade, flames smothered one another
While lost on endless seas, riding waves of blind endeavour
I bowed to heedless gods offering a grand forever
How often that it seems: Here’s the key to all your dreams. Then it’s gone
You try to find a place to hide. Feeling everything you tried was just a lie
I said I knew a way, a knot that tied this all together
But I paid for what I’d lost, trading light for darker weather
The things that led me on; full of weeds of discontent
Husks of hopes that never flowered reflecting things I never meant
How often that it seems: Here’s the key to all your dreams. Then it’s gone
You try to find a place to hide. Feeling everything you tried was just a lie
There was a time, a time of endless summer days
Long nights of wine and untold gentle sighs
Life was sweet and you smothered all my fears
We knew no end, but in love the end is always near
A time, when time ceased to matter
We’d make love ‘til the moon fell from the sky
But in your heart it was a masquerade
You changed, you went and changed into something bitter
You knew the end and all that lives must also fade away
II
As past parades in time all my pictures fade to umber
Even love becomes a crime, everything goes undercover
I live my life alone in contempt of all the others
Fires never seem to fade. Flames smother one another
(x2) How often that it seems: Here’s the key to all your dreams. Then it’s gone
You try to find a place to hide. Feeling everything you tried was just a lie