Throat of Winter

Close your eyes
Don't expect a reason
Just drink the wine
And pray that your soul's to
Find the vines
Wreathed around the fear that keeps me
Paralyzed
Soon be my own device

A gentle host
Build the walls and lay your faults in me,
The ghost,
Haunting the emptiness
Of those
Hollow thoughts that never talk yet bring
And boast
A cup that will never flow

Summer's gone,
The leaves have fallen
They die like breath
Caught in the throat of winter
All the lies,
The lords, the flies
Coalesce
Haunt the bones and live again

Round my head,
There may be a halo but
Round my neck,
This rope has begun to
Burrow in
And suffocate the paths to take.
The will is gone,
Surrendered to the unknown

Summer's gone,
The leaves have fallen
They die like breath
Caught in the throat of winter
All the lies,
The lords, the flies
Coalesce
Haunt the bones and live again

Woeful tears
Numbed in the wake of wintertide
Burn the fear
Hold the fire, rise from rime

Called alive
Curse the sky
Called alive
The fall, divined

Reach for a same sun
Slowly sinking in the fire
Take my place of...

Skies fall, the autumn of days
Tears turn to ash on your face
Still they can't take me
Take me from you