Sleep takes its hold with a sinking pull   And now that I'm alone, this burst of light   Fills my lids and I'm awake to the songs of horror   Your ill-bought greatness, he's seen it all from the frame      One day you'll reap the seeds of a shadowed past   And I can only hope I'm there   You tried to satisfy the thirst of a thousand ages   But built a stack of bones as your monument to dead vanity      It's just a shrine to the words you use to wreck   Tell me, how can you sleep?   How can you just welcome the wine and throw out your nets?   You throw out your nets and set fame to bait the noose   Set fame to derail what's innocent      Why spare the life of inglorious waste? Why let him live?   He's just hunting your own   How can you just sit there and watch?   Because I love you more than you know   Look again and tell me what you see      In the window was me, the massacres were all me   Oh God, please, please   Deliver the penalties for all of this from me   I'm not finding justice, no warrant for mercy   Don't give up on me, don't give up on me      What happens when I turn and run again   And again, and again?   I will forgive you   And what happens when I lie to your face?   I will forgive you      Oh, my God, I can be so defiant to some one   Who's arms stretch to me   I will forgive   Don't give up on me, don't give up on me   I have forgiven you      I'll awake to new purpose to fight this body   No longer will I play the dark shepherd   Let not my words be ripped from the throat of a horror   Oh, forgiver, where is justice in letting me live?