Fire Engine Red

Forgotten stories of excess
Both real and fiction
Too many hollow lives
Spent chasing benediction
We plummet to the earth
Like scores of fallen angels
Play out our tragedies
On empty weathered stages

But before we lose it all
The final curtain call
Conflicted and dejected
And dejected...

Beware the opulence
Inherent in confusion
When reality's obscured
By clouds and disillusion
Held under far too long
By the weight of our existence
We labor fruitlessly
Against both time and distance

But before we lose it all
The final curtain call
Conflicted and dejected...

What's in the past can't be undone
You've got to separate to become one
Your indecision hides
The guilt just underneath your clouded eyes
So sick you'd sell your soul
For another fifteen minute lie...