A stranger to you but   I've known you forever you're my flesh and blood   You gave me this life and made me hate you for it   The distance in years but time is a cloud and a whisper   The anger gives way to a sickness   for a home that I've never known   Alien innocence   Face down 'til you make me forget how to breathe   Tongue tied so I bind you unwilling to me   Fear not the voice of the serpent inside   We'll stand still and pray   for the storm to subside and leave us soon   The fear of the dark no warmth in the arms of a monster   A chemical contacts' course of incision   Your fragile refrain the seconds they chisel our lives away   like a sick circadian conundrum.   Will you leave me alone again   knee deep in hopeless despair?   Will you waste your days in hiding   haunted by memories of me?   Finally your one shot and love but you blew it.   Darling you failed failure   And pain is all you have left