Wings of Steel

Steel is strong, won't bend or break,
Steel is cold and sharp and hard.
Hearts of gold get lost or broken.
Hearts of steel don't need a guard.
Lift me up into the sky,
So I won't have to think or feel.
Faster than the speed of pain,
Lift me up on wings of steel.
Dancing on the razor's edge,
It won't matter if I fall.
Born to burn and blaze and die--
Like my father, after all.
Lift me up into the sky,
So I won't have to think or feel.
Faster than the speed of pain,
Lift me up on wings of steel.
No more tears for me to shed--
Too hollow now inside to grieve
For the living or the dead.
They say they love, but always leave.
Lift me up into the sky,
So I won't have to think or feel.
Faster than the speed of pain,
Lift me up on wings of steel.
 

Laura's Goodbye

Golden days have turned to dust
And we are strangers now who stand
Surrounded by the shards of trust.
And I have tried to understand
How you have changed inside, but I
Cannot see beyond the lies.
And without trust, a love must die--
Nothing left now but goodbyes.
I'll have my dreams to comfort me,
Memories of happy years.
I'll throw my sorrows to the sea
And use the waves to dry my tears.
The man you were I still adore
But I don't know you anymore.
 

Midnight Battles

Tonight I argue with a ghost
As I have done a thousand times
We wrestle as the midnight chimes
For the soul we value most.
"You can't have him, he can't go."
The shadow laughs and shakes his head
And smiles, too bright for one who's dead,
And tells me what deep down I know.
He's always been his father's son
Though I love him as my own.
His choice is made, the gauntlet thrown,
The battle has been lost, and won.
And I pray that in the end
My son won't lie beside my friend.