Assemblage 23 - House in fire lyrics

Sifting through the ashes With unsteady hands Searching for the remnants Of a broken man A history of hollow lives And low ideals A backlog of wrongdoing We never conceal I rise to my feet And walk away from the dross Towards the doorway Of our mutual and harrowing loss The only way I know To shake myself of this curse Is to bring myself to something That is measurably worse CH I sought refuge in a house on fire I took shelter in a wall of flame I built a prison in my own subconscious There's nothing else left Nothing else left to blame. Emerging from the wreckage Of a life that once was Confounded by the damage My own psyche does I bear the scars Of an insufferable will And the tyrannical reign it threatens to instill Some seek control By grabbing hold of their lives In a futile attempt To help themselves survive I dig myself Into a much deeper hole Running from a fate That I can never control (CH) I woke up In a column of ash While the world came down In a horrible crash I was naive For ever wanting this much Using self-deception As my only crutch Footsteps diverge From the path they once walked Words are eclipsed By the language they talked Actions betrayed By promises broken Flames consume intentions Best left unspoken