Shadows

You have followed me for all these years
Creeping through my dreams, my thoughts, my fears
Still you haunt my steps; it seems to be
You're echoing the unknown and obscene
So I took you and I ironed you against the wall
Believing lies that promised you'd be gone...
Not for long...

Shadows
Always there beside;
Showing what's inside.
Shadows
Mirrors all around;
Streaming on the ground.
Lust. Anger.
Hate. Greed.
Shadows

My fatal, muted doppelganger
Manipulating joy and anger
Please don't lead my heart to evil deeds
Turn your maliced works away from me.
With a maw that's black as pitch and darkened,
Filmy skin so harrowingly cold...
Takes its tole...

Shadows
Always there beside;
Showing what's inside.
Shadows
Mirrors all around;
Streaming on the ground.
Lust. Anger.
Hate. Greed.
Shadows

Emerging from the footfalls in my past
Stirring up the cravings that continue to last
Cover me in shining light, my Savior,
Eradicate this phantom next to me...

Fed by wasted, dried emotions
Lining hallways, doors and curtains
Draped so cruelly and devoutly
Scraped on everything I care about
I'm no boy from Neverland
With my fair Wendy close at hand
To tame this evil, shallow beast
That's made of all the muck inside me.
Someone please take him away
Please today
(Please)
(Today)

Shadow
Always there beside
Showing what's inside
Shadow
Mirrors all around
Streaming on the ground
Lust. Anger.
Hate. Greed.
Shadows

So sayeth The Brad...

Phoenix from the Snow

Scaling pipes and drains I find
Solace in the steeples of my mind
Then jump off and glide
Into a courtyard's sea of snowy white
I spread my arms, I'm falling back
And then I die:
Yet from this frozen waste,
Again alive.

I'm the phoenix that is born
From icy night, not ashen morn,
I melt, but frigid death's not known
To frozen beak and chilly bone
But for the snowflakes and the hail
These skies are lonely ones at night.
Until my death comes once again,
My mind's white storms bear wings their flight.

I'm crashing to the ground
Breaking through the ice I start to drown
Winter waters flow
Into my veins, my blood stops and I know:
The life is leaving,
Breath by breath.
I'm born again, 'neath
Glacial death.

I'm the phoenix that is born
From icy night, not ashen morn,
I melt, but frigid death's not known
To frozen beak and chilly bone
But for the snowflakes and the hail
These skies are lonely ones at night.
Until my death comes once again,
My mind's white storms bear wings their flight.

The winds of many lands
Have blighted my back
And yet they still
Carry me forward and drive me
Out into the west
And straight into the sun
Wings flapping and melting
And dripping their marrow
But as that sun rises
Revealing me dead
At night I'll rise high
From the snow that this phoenix has bled.

So sayeth The Brad...