One step closer to death

You better take one last breath

One turn on the edge of the dial

You sinned yourself,

but embraced the child who ran from his fate

Is heaven a way

for those who chose to know and negate?

One crack in the wall of your mind

a lonely rose, get better with time

and it shows



And you should understand that we're all here now

Same as it ever was

One more kiss before we're bound

One more prayer before you sleep

One more tear to make our peace

One more touch to feel the cold

Keep it with you as you go

And you go alone



CHORUS

And will you bathe yourself tonight

In the tears of another

To escape the trail of light

That'll follow you down, down, down

And will you bask in candlelight

While the tears of another drown

In the answers that you sought

In a love you never found



And everything is cloudy on these days

But the lights are beautiful

As the embers frame your face

Daylight break, and tears apart any fortune that I had

As I hold you in my arms

I watch my treasure turn to ash

It slips from my grasp



Chorus



Lay me down

Lay me down

Toss a rose on my old resting place for now

I put my ear to the ground

Won't you tell me everything now that you're bound

Lay me down

Lay me down

Toss a rose on my old resting place for now



One step closer to death

You better take one last breath

One turn on the edge of the dial

You sinned yourself,

but embraced the child who ran from his fate

Is heaven a way

for those who chose to know and negate?

One crack in the wall of your mind

a lonely rose, get better with time