Fire on the porch on a summer's night

All of my things are there inside

Black smoke rise up, now burn on, burn higher I smell leaves and burning tires

Dogs in the meadows barking wild

Blackbird rise up and tell me what have you done I'm not drunk and I'm not sad

There's nothing inside that I want back

Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at Do you wonder how I am tonight

Don't lose time looking in my eyes

Not every tear means you're gonna cry From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

There is nothing but dust

In the layers I'm peeling From the bottom of my heart

Beats a rattling drum

Coming up from the depths

Into the rays of the sun Now under crushing skies of grays

Paralyzed with phantom pains

Before this room became just a place Where I just sleep through endless days

Spinning webs and carving names

Where thoughts break up exploding in space But I once crossed a quarter mile

Through black pools of razor wires

Cut through the steel with the edge of a file While singing rhapsodies in stride

Hellbent and dignified

Now my time has come

Who you fooling and why? From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

There is eminent death

To the promise I'm keeping From the bottom of my heart

Comes an army of one

Marching back up the steps

Into the rays of the sun Pale-faced and hollowed eyes

Buried under ruptured skies

Not every smile means I'm laughing inside Two-face and compromised

I've enraptured you with lies

Everything means nothing

And tonight everything is mine From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

I have buried so much

In the layers I'm peeling From the bottom of my heart

A battle will come

Marching back up the steps

Into the rays of the sun From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

Wrapped around tight

With no sign of leaving From the bottom of my heart

A ballad is sung

Through a whisper she comes

Into the rays of the sun