Staring down the corridors of destruction
That was put up by the tools of pain
Surrounded in this city of darkness
A city that has no name.
Feeling my way along forgotten walls
Shadows hide the rusted tears
That painted the towering fortress
A fortress built to protect from needless cares.
No light above to guide your eyes
No light to bring you to me
This city is for the lonely
This city is where I am meant to be.
The river through the park has run dry
As the water it wanted no more.
Still feeling my way against imaginary walls
Still searching for the imaginary door.
I want to stay
But I pretend I want to leave
There's comfort here,
Comfort in my misery.
I catch a glimpse of your memory
Behind the ivy covered gates.
I close my eyes and pretend not to see
Your eyes that loved me so great.
The blackened sky washes over my heart
To make my selfish wants go away.
My last bit of happiness,
Was left behind in yesterday.
Don't ever come here
I never want to be free.
Don't ever call my name
Just try and forget me.
My footsteps echo on broken pavement
A sound I try to conceal.
I wish I could forget who I am
Make this life I have less real.
I want to be alone and forgotten
I want to disappear untraced.
Please if you love me you will forget
My voice, my touch, my face.
There's no way you could understand
Why this city draws me in.
In time I am hoping to erase you
In fact its starting to begin.
If you somehow make it here
And you see me collapsed on the street.
Please walk on by.
I never want our eyes to meet.
The city is my soul now
There is no place for you to be.
The city is my blood
My beautiful city of misery.

~Dawn 3.06.00