I Stand Alone

Don't open the curtain Cos I know for certain You won't find light Another morning Another day of this fight The beast at the gate And the self that you hate Never rest for long Just as neither you Not until you've earned the right And when the wounds turn to scars As you know they always do Just know they cannot change The way that I see you Harried and hounded They've got me surrounded Can't stand that victorious grin I can't let them win I don't want to give in Admit I'm through But what else can I do I stand alone On some other level I dance with the devil On back-lit skies The sulfurous cloud and The darkness that shrouded my eyes I held onto yearning That I'd be returning To worlds above Until I admitted The parts of the dance that I loved As my pain turns to rage As I know it always does And I acknowledge The monster I was I hear that voice in my head And I know I always will Since I was broken and bent to his will But I'm not here to be stepped on These chains are a weapon for now So let me show you how I stand alone You're an ocean of love And you drowned me in The way you waved I felt like a hero But I was the one that you saved The forces of darkness Were just an abstraction The enemy lives in my head I've never forgotten Those first five words you said And when the dawn turns to night As I know it has to do I hope my last eleven Find their way to you The monsters we've faced down Could never bar the way I've handled worse on my own Almost every single day But one day I'll have to let go Or keep chasing echoes Of you I know what I've got to do I stand alone So as I turn to the future As I know I need to do To rebuild what was taken away I claim this kingdom, this coven This family I love and The scrapmates that showed me the way And finally saying goodbye Is a mountain that I Have to climb But this is the final time I STAND ALONE