Alone [based on a Edgar Allen Poe poem]

[INTRO — Instrumental] [VERSE 1] From the hour of my birth I was cursed apart No common vein has ever fed this heart What others call joy — I cannot drink I fell from a cliff they refused to think My sorrow bleeds from a different wound A blackened well, a separate tomb No hand could lift me to their light I walked through their day locked in my night [PRE-CHORUS] I could not wake I could not break free Everything I loved — consumed only me [CHORUS] ALONE! (screamed) ALONE! (harmonized choir) Sealed inside this hollow throne Heart of stone — blood and bone — ALONE! [VERSE 2] From the torrent and the mountain red From the storm that thundered in my head From the gold-soaked dying autumn sun From the lightning bolt that called me son From the depths of every good and ill The mystery that binds me still — And there in the bruised and bleeding sky A demon shaped the clouds on high [PRE-CHORUS] I could not wake I could not break free Everything I loved — consumed only me [CHORUS] ALONE! (screamed) ALONE! (harmonized choir) Sealed inside this hollow throne Heart of stone — blood and bone — ALONE! [BRIDGE — BREAKDOWn] "The demon wore the shape of heaven's blue... and I alone could see its face..." Silence. One guitar note rings. Then the storm returns— [FINAL CHORUS] ALONE! (full screaming + choir) ALONE! (orchestral swell) Sealed inside this hollow throne Heart of stone — blood and bone — From the demon in my view — I was always — ALONE! [OUTRO] "...alone..."