Before I Leap (XV) - The Awakening

If I could only for a moment

If I could look before I leap

To test it out before diving

To test to see how deep

When I’m alone, dressed up in crayon

Pulling burdens from the weak

For just to look in her direction

To bear the cause or bear deceit

Oh but the night time is where it breeds

Feed on the night time, feelings bereaved

Oh but the night time is what I need

Thought I’d improve my concentration

A little more breathing space

But I’m suffocated by the ventilation

That circles 'round this hollow place

Oh but the night time…

It doesn’t matter where the hurt is It’s only worse when it’s dark

I see her face and then the burning

Tomorrows breathe into a spark

If I could learn from past disaster

That left my mind a riddled fuse

When eyes were turned to the hereafter

And life had seemed so far removed

Oh but the night time.