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- - - DEMENTIA CRUELLY WROUGHT: KISS SANITY GOODBYE - - -

The devil has become one with the holy ghost
Obscuring the lines between the beast of the host
And the sea of everlasting damnation

My salvation seems so far away
Like a thorn of poison ere break of day
I left a part of myself there with you
In our dementia cruelly wrought but true

I writhe within the fires I imagine now
In times that have torn asunder my dreams and sounds
Twisting my thoughts inside the configuration

Oh, I know. Oh, I know
No matter how hard I try
I kiss my sanity goodbye

My elation in my time of sleep
Seems to me to be an amazing feat
Dreams shatter just like lamenting glass
In our dementia cruelly wrought at last

Trembling fingers on bibles looking for faith
Have withered away today with faded wraiths
I�ve come to grips with ghostly night visitations

This destination is not divine
When all is lost it seems I�m out of time
Spirited away to lost forlorn shores
To wait for peace forever nevermore

Oh, I know. Oh, I know
No matter how hard I try
I kiss my sanity goodbye

She waits at the edge of turmoil
Where she broke upon the stones
On forlorn shores and crimson tides
Leaving behind a lonely song
Death avatars carry her down
To her own watery grave
Now I stare at four empty walls
And hear the sound of crashing waves

Oh, I know. Oh, I know
No matter how hard I try
I kiss my sanity goodbye
Oh, I know. Oh, I know
No matter how hard I try
I kiss my sanity goodbye

(c) 2016 Frank Green