Black as Virtue

Bite down hard, lips bruised
Shadows inked on my skin
The barbs pierce through
Black trickles from the wounds
This blade is sharp and thin

Cut me kill me kiss me fuck me
Hold me close and whisper poison in my ear

Sharpen the knife, cut slowly
Cries of pain and pleasure echo
Black doom is near and I surrender
Shudder and twist in the moment
Away and closer, caught up in my torment

Cut me kill me kiss me fuck me
Hold me close and whisper poison in my ear

Beat me blue and purple, with fists
I’ll crawl over smoldering coals for more
My belly singed black, shards of skin peeling
Make me eat them off your fingers, suck them clean
Pant and moan like a fucking bitch in heat

It’s power at its most potent, my obedience
It makes you squirm, makes me bleed, bleed, bleed

Until I claw free, my wings bent and torn and black
Only to tear them away completely and hand the pieces to you
My only gift, my dead soul, you take from me and shatter

Cut me kill me kiss me fuck me
Hold me close and whisper poison in my ear

Are you laughing now that I am nothing?
Sprawled defeated at your feet and still kissing them
Worshipping at my altar, broken and burning and in ecstasy
Scratching your name into my skin to make it pretty
Until the black comes over me and I die for you

Cut me kill me kiss me fuck me
Hold me close and whisper poison in my ear

Can You?

Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear my voice
Calling out to you?

Let out this hurt
Let out this hurt
Can you let out all this hurt
Crying in my arms?

(Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear my voice
Calling out to you?)

Can you still feel?
Can you still feel?
Can you still feel the love we shared
Holding you close?

(Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear my voice
Calling out to you?)

Why are you gone?
Why are you gone?
Why are you no longer here beside me
Sharing my tears?

(Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear my voice
Calling out to you?)

How are you now?
How are you now?
How are you coping with everything of ours
Falling apart?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?
Can you hear my voice
Calling out to you?

The Phoenix Rising

This dream is mine and I’m never gonna let go
Pass over the torch and let me light the pyre
Take a deep breath, the smoke filling up my lungs
Ashes coat my throat as heat scorches along my skin

I want to drown this misery
I want to run away from here
I want to climb until my legs can no longer support me

This dream is mine and I’m never gonna let go
Pass over the torch and let me light the pyre
Take a deep breath, the smoke filling up my lungs
Ashes coat my throat as heat scorches along my skin

This present needs to disappear
This past to fade from memory
This future in my head come into being before my eyes

This dream is mine and I’m never gonna let go
Pass over the torch and let me light the pyre
Take a deep breath, the smoke filling up my lungs
Ashes coat my throat as heat scorches along my skin

Fight for the only chance left
Scream at the burn of defeat
Stand up, shake off my skin, and start it all over again

This dream is mine and I’m never gonna let go

Pass over the torch and let me light the pyre
Take a deep breath, the smoke filling up my lungs
Ashes coat my throat as heat scorches along my skin