Tucked away behind a black hole Inside the bleakness of dreaming Obsessed with the ticking of my watch Betrayed by the turning of your head Lured by the shining of promise Into a vortex of eternal tension Unresolved, unresolving, resolute I'm wrapped in the quilt of stars
And after all I keep on living And after all I keep forgiving
I've seen where the stars go to die Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie
This sickness was all it took Even planets are suffering From cauldrons of astral plane Rising, intoxicating fumes Filling myself with the ashes Of an entire burning galaxy Washing myself in the blood Of a thousand, a thousand murdered kings
And after all I keep on living And after all I keep forgiving
I've seen where the stars go to die Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie Three-headed rescuer passes us by Blood never freezes and tears never dry
Seen through the eye of a needle Spectrum, refracted eclipse Spinning meaning from symbols and shapes The great cosmic atrocity In the mystery of intellect In the writhings of chaos Gravity picks its victims All stories end too soon
And after all I keep on living And after all I keep forgiving
I've seen where the stars go to die Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie Three-headed rescuer passes us by Blood never freezes and tears never dry.