This Departure

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 farewe