In the darkness he does hide There he beckons me Inside is where he resides Inside my lonely heart Always calling me Trying to get me to sign Says he wants to free me from pain Although I know that is not true His offer he says is on the table Take it or leave it Asks me if I want the world Do I want to live pain-free Tells me that I shall be a god among man But there’s a price Only a wee one Something money does not govern Temptation like none other A thirst that needs quenched His offer could be that nectar But the price is so high The greed inside me cannot resist It whispers to me at night Tells me to let go All will be well My heart pounds It aches with a thousand pains I know where it does lie Though that’s where I die Hands so cold as I prick my finger Blood drips to the ground His smile so wide as I sign And it is done As he promised the pain is gone But I am not happy All smiles have vanished As I am left with only emptiness And emptiness is all there shall be For a man can only feel Now I am no man Just a vacant shell I wear the disguise of what once was A broken man A lonely soul But soul that is lonely no longer That trickster does now hold The very essence of me What more can I give Nothing, merely to fade away |