Talk of recreation Opening the chamber door Entertain the veil Of impossibility And bitter consequence Beneath this pallid face of yore Shattered fragments take their hold And I fade away Drained of strength I take my leave The essence still remains Haunted by what might have been Sacrifice in vain With this departure, I bid farewell Pretend that this is all a dream Wide awake, I can't avert my gaze When reason fails, fleeting innocence Draws it's final breath Drained of strength I take my leave The essence still remains Haunted by what might have been Sacrifice in vain With this departure, I bid farewell Forsaken with the darkness Calling out salvation Losing the will to fight temptation This moment must move on But the pain goes on and on Someday I will break these chains... Drained of strength I take my leave The essence still remains Haunted by what might have been Sacrifice in vain With this departure, I bid farewell