...just wishing to unearth a reason for this pandemonium. look at what you've done... but i want to hear the outside story... 'why do you look so ill?' 'cause it just gets harder every day'... simply to assure you that the self-denial is voluntary...had haunted this place in times before. maybe it's purgatory... it appeared as if we could stay to wait for their values to disintegrate... just pretend, with me, that we didn't almost have to go through death... and so we sit by day, praying to find the love again... 'falling may occur'... we're running to our demise... we think, please compromise for the lost blood. is that possible?... once upon a time, we were cut from reality... 'just an irreverent equal'... you said we'd hear echoes of truth before we felt the chilling presence of what had been bound by deception until now. you said you'd be devoutly honest. yet with the element of surprise, you let lies out... ignite in remembrance... they can never know me... but the situation was utterly desolate, just as the stars against the lonely midnight sky above. we saw it all collapse with them... if i stay, it would only make matters worse, but i must say, you've brought on a curse... until you found what we had long ago. i thought we'd never burn out.

[audrey, if you are reading this, you are free to incorporate as many of these bits of lyrics, or any other bits of lyrics i've posted, into songs. just tell me if you do. and someday, if you don't, they'll just go back into the elegy, from whence they came.]

[revised:] their cruel words no longer sting. i will face no further injury. i had smiled before this love, now i smile as i bleed. enthralled by the light, your eyes sparkle with joy. yet i am left in the shadows, to admire this crystalline dream. i was consumed by the floor and i was hopeless. now i assure myself that i'll get through this.