My Silent Wake - By My Own Hand lyrics

As I lay down My aching flesh embraced the wasted ground The fading day retreats again The fearless night will follow Consuming life-like shadows There's nothing more to see The hollow world That lies beyond my reach Within the other sad souls dwell Without a place for me Consuming life-like shadows There's nothing more to see The braided web beneath my skin The fragile veil that holds me in And when it's lifted from my eyes No more illusion, no disguise And in the shroud of my despair No hope, no light, no prayer I see the strangers stand and stare The secrets of my heart laid bare Their cold hard hands concede no care And now I see I am alone For all but one a faceless man Who whispers softly in my ear Confides in me the hollow truth As empty as my broken form Left as my soul prepares to flee And now I see I am alone I lie alone My sallow flesh no longer can I call my own A fate enthralls those gathered round By my own hand, by my own hand And as oblivion, once welcome Now unfurls before me An endless void, a fallen pride From here there's but one road And as the snow begins to fall like ash around me To conceal my mortal shame My instinct screams to pull myself back From the point of no return My frozen limbs lie at my side My weakened heart is almost still The dimming of my troubled thoughts The raging of an iron will Raging for a life soon cast aside No resolution with it's end Weeping for the lives they lived in vain No choice in d**h, no chance to mend And through the burning tears that never fall I find my sight slowly restored What once seemed a desperate flight Morphs into a fate abhorred And then I find a calm resolve Heavy eyes stung by the hungry cold Faltering I walk away By my own hand