"The Pain Is Still Mine" lyrics

The word is easy
Dripping sweet and cocky from the tongue
Vaguely describing the taste of blood

A distant cry arise
From the fathomless well that is my soul
I can not hear the words
So I throw my heart in like a coin
And wish that it would sink forever

A purpose, a sacrifice
Or merely temptation?
Is my solitude anything but a perversion
Of my vanity?

I never cared for this weak inclination
This paranoid tendency to flock
And in between all the noise, all the guilt
A silence would carry my spirit away
From diminishing obsessions
Away from fools and poisonous flies

The birth of a dreamer

Behold, an angel of vengeance
(A lion) A lion
(A sword) A sword of fire
Alas, the burden of my heart
Is violence undone
Pain unfulfilled
(Silence) Silence

When I finally cut deep into the flesh of guilt
The un-naked body of shame
And the veins of repentance open wide
Sending rivers of blood into my mouth
The pain is still mine
The pain is still mine