Masquerade!

Masquerade!
Our lives are too much like flames
Masquerade!
Blown away by wind that won’t recall names

Masquerade!
Put on your impassive face
Masquerade!
No one cares on these monotonous days

Flash of death
Trace of greed
Love and hate
Want and need
Tear and sneer
Have and lack
Grit and scowl
Red and black

Faces
Take a breath, step a foot
On this endless road
In a macabre race

Eye of smoke
Lying true
See pretend
Crashing through
Curl of ash
Swirl of mud
Heart of stone
Reign of blood

Faces
Take it in, take it all
Til you’ve drowned
In the pain
Vertigo
But who can say it’s without grace?

Masquerade!
Assassin in the crowd
Masquerade!
Someone stop this clandestine cloud

Masquerade!
Killing, slaying , massacres
Masquerade!
Watch that body rot in that black hearse

Masquerade!
Stopping breaths and hearing cries
Masquerade!
Run away in your put-on disguise

Masquerade!
Your sins are taking their toll
Masquerade!
It won’t be long ‘til you take that bottomless fall

Masquerade!
Seeing demons in this kiss
Masquerade!
Stare now into your own abyss!