Even after all the days are gone   Even though the writer knows he's wrong   Still the words are written and recalled   In the empty isolated halls   Held in high regard, he comes again   Surface gone from under me, no more security   The future lies erased   These are the last remaining days      If in doubt about the meaning meant   Make this one decision your defense   Stay alive to calculate the dead   Lines of color radiate ahead   Silence now descends upon the earth   Can't deny the evidence   Not now, not even once   The future lies erased   These are the last remaining days      Surface gone from under me, no more security   The future lies erased   These are the last remaining days      The only thing I'll take   While I'm alive and half awake   Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade   The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon   Heart beaten down   No surrender to the sacred sound      When the vision cuts across the sky   There is no reflection in my eye   All the undertakers talk the same   Saving pressure and appointing blame   States of independence form anew   Can't deny the evidence, not now, not even once   The future lies erased   These are the last remaining days      The only thing I'll take   While I'm alive and half awake   Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade   The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon   Heart beaten down   No surrender to the sacred sound      Light shatters the skeleton circus   And the carnival's deadly host   No memory, nothing remembered   From the pages of the Book of Ghosts   Though the system stays in place   What if I'm no longer safe?   Night falling gathers at my heels   Lines the contours of the cold parade   Search everywhere, nothing is revealed   Fear creeps along the cavalcade   Through the fields of evergreen   Passing by as if unseen   Though the system stays the same   What if I'm no longer sane?      The only thing I'll take   While I'm alive and half awake   Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade   The only thing I want   Is taken out and rained upon   Heart beaten down   No surrender to the sacred sound