Shadow Play

Album: In The Raw (2019)
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  • Looking at the mirror, asking questions with old, weary eyes
    Once a girl who had no name dressed as an angel in disguise
    From the corner of her bedroom light illuminates
    Crawling shadows, cut out silhouettes
    With the darkness, a dancing marionette

    Smiled away with such a beauty ever seen before
    Drowned by rain of thorns and petals falling at her curtain call
    This mortal coil year after year recalled a sad charade
    Like a shadow play we can't forget
    In the darkness, a crying marionette

    Make me believe
    I must go on
    Life is a warning
    Don't want to risk it anymore
    I want to leave
    This place so wrong
    It left me terrified to lose
    All I am living for

    Alone, imprisoned by the echoes of the empty hall
    She made a deal with the enemy and let her fences fall
    From the dust she build a door to frame new memories
    Once a shadow, dancing with her fears
    Lights the darkness, now the puppeteer

    Make me believe
    I must go on
    Life is a warning
    Don't want to risk it anymore
    I want to leave
    This place so wrong
    It left me terrified to lose
    All I am living for

    There's a world inside we are holding the keys
    One day at a time not trying to please
    Tell me of anything that is lasting forever
    You are your thoughts!
    What are we waiting for?

    Make me believe
    I must go on
    Life is a warning
    Don't want to risk it anymore
    I want to leave
    This place so wrong
    It left me terrified to lose
    All I am living for

    I want to leave
    This place so wrong
    It left me terrified to lose
    All I am living for
    Make me believe
    I must go on
    Life is a warning
    Don't want to risk it anymore
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