A flash through my memory   like an illuminated sky   Twenty-five years   I've been waiting to die   Stare deep into my eyes   you'll see it's so easy to cry      My life is in a tailspin   Waiting for a moment to act   Trying on another skin   Seeing my beliefs attacked   But don't cry for me   I'm already dead      I've got to live to die   and I've got to die to live      Drinking from the tree   I breathe new life   Like an infusion of blood   and an end to my strife   But why does it never end?   I've suffered my desires      I feel paralyzed   motionless and still   You don't see what I see through these eyes   I've been learning to live all my life   Now I'm being taught how to die   Look into my eyes and see how easy I cry      I've got to live to die   and I've got to die to live      I won't feel loved again   I can't feel love again   I won't open up my eyes   I can't open up my mind   I've been given too many lies   I've been blinded too many times   Close my eyes one last time   See a tear fall from my eye      I've got to live to die   and I've got to die to live...   in peace