In the past, when you barely knew my name Was a time when I rotted in sorrow and shame My emotions dammed up and bottled in As I drowned in self pity Drowned in sin I fixed myself, but the dam remained A scar left by my former pain I ignored it and I was happy with life But you gave me so much more You taught me how to feel again Broke the dam, unleashed the flood In you I had a home again You restored the warmth back to my blood I didn't know how to repay you An angel is what you seemed to be I only wanted to embrace you In comforting arms eternally I tried to tell you how much you meant to me But you just didn't realize And words of loved rolled off your tongue But you were just fooled by a guise You were glad to forgive me for what I used to be You were glad to forgive me for waiting so long But something made you change the way you looked at me And then you left me hurting, broken and wronged The one who loved to Spend time by your side More than anything on earth The one you had to teach So carefully That there's something life is worth You taught me how to feel again Broke the dam, unleashed the flood (Taught me how to feel) In you I had a home until you Cut me out and spilled my blood (You burned down my home) And even though you left me (Broken) Bleeding on the floor (In darkness) You'll always have a friend in me (Open arms) I will never lock the door (And open heart) You taught me how to feel and then We fell in love but crashed and burned And things will never be the same But I'll wait for my friend to return

The winter comes The life numbs Hope is incased in ice The temperature falls The soul inside calls Longing for the days when the weather was nice The leaves fly The plants die Glazed in freezing rain The cold stings The air rings With cries of anguish and pain My mind wonders As the darkened sky thunders Whether I can make it through But my heart knows No matter what else comes and goes I will find home in you I'll fight the pain; I'll make my stand As long as you just hold my hand I'll take the load from your back as well as my own I'd rather bleed out by your side Than find a safe, warm place to hide Where you're outside my arms and I'm alone We both will make it through the storm I won't give in; Won't see you torn from me By wind, rain, sleet, hail or the trials of time The only thing that could pull us apart Is if we fall out of each others' hearts So let's both hold on tight and try to shine. (Shine)

A fork splits the path ahead The crown must fall on someone's head But on both sides are hands stained red And so the future is our dread So it starts and sides are taken Monsters inside start to awaken Hatred spreads, foundations shaken Faith in human kind is breaking Choose your disease By the hands of either beast We sicken Choose your disease It's just that simple; The plot won't thicken. The tensions rise To end it all Before my eyes The curtain falls The choice is made Yet the battle still rages I want it to fade But fools keep playing sages You, stop acting Like you won Your skin is burned and blistered By an empty sun It gives us no light Rewards not your praise And to the others Stop this flow of foolish False hindsight Lying to yourself, pretending Like it might Be any better if we chose To waste away by some other means Choose Your Disease By the hands of either beast We all will bleed Choose Your Disease Odysseus, you made your choice So fare the sea

Now we're growing close together As our secrets fall apart And we're both becoming tethered To each others' open hearts It's taken me forever To feel alive again But now you've helped me to sever The hopelessness within So I'll hold you up As high as I can So that I can show you what You don't understand; It's true that Your reflection should make you proud A heart that Rises so far above the crowd I'm not sure what you see in me But I'm glad there's something left to see And I'm sorry that I had to be so shy But I'm opened up to you right now And I'm finally comfortable allowing You to see deep into this scarred mind I'm sorry to tell you that your knight Bleeds beneath his armor And that I was afraid of open air I'm sorry that I'm on a ledge And that sometimes I may totter But you've given me a true reason to care You are my hope.