The Fullness of Time: III. Release

Lying here surrounded

By the pieces of my life

Would it all be easier

If I lay me down to die

Dreams piled high

On the back of this broken man

Is this all? Born to fall?

Or to rise again?

So much pain and disillusionment

Everything I once felt sure about

We're all lost if we don't know

It's a game that we are all playing

The motions of all our counterparts

A piece of sinister scheme

The puppet that's broken has reason to smile

They can no longer force him to dance on their strings

Why shrug off the chains? If you wrap them about

You'll be sunk to the bottom and drowning

The clockwork behind their smiles

Wound by hands that were made to harm

Just release yourself

Cause they can't rape the willing

Or take what you have if there's nothing else

Tired of life and filled with despair

And covered with blood from the crosses I bear

But I'm still standing

Should I make myself crawl?

Seems so counter to our nature

Accepting with grace the things we can't change

But when all's said and done and you're wronged and decieved

Then it matters the most what you choose to believe

Should I fight against fate

Or should I just lay down and die?

Solos: Bernie, Nick

The puppet that's broken has reason to smile

But the strings can't contrl you if you walk away

No more tears of disillusionment

I'll be a puppet no longer

The hands that I thought had held me

The clockwork behind their smiles

They'll not have control over me

I'll stand up and leave them behind

Just release yourself

Cause they can't rape the willing

Or take what you have if there's nothing else

Tired of life and filled with despair

And covered with blood from the crosses that I bear

But I'm still standing

Should I make myself crawl?

Just release yourself

From the scars you inflict on yourself

When you're wounded by no one else

Rise above pain, move past my despair

And put down the cross that I've made myself bear

Now I'm still standing

And I'm not gonna crawl