As I greeted you with shaking hands
I couldn’t quite believe; as if I've been deceived
With a tally up over your shroud
Your feet so sorely ground
Your head above the clouds
Now the verbs and vowels are shuttered down
From that life; the clown
Holding a sinner’s crown
And it frightens me, to grieve these deeds
Nor to ever leave just how it came to be

But now the loosening to hold
From your soporific glow
This time has called to dissolve
All deep attraction in my soul
Just as a stone to throw
I'll gravely let you go
And to that blackened sea
Will falsely set you free

[chorus]
On the written words we shared that day
Knowing the cost was weighed
It's just the price we paid
To that wicked dream I tried to cling
And though for naught it'd bring
I'd give you everything

I would give another go to show
But now that ribbon's cut
And every portal shut
Forging on the fool's play wasn't wise
Yet such a kingly prize;
Those eyes I've rhapsodized

But now the truth has been unscrolled
From from the depths of the untold
Setting secrets all afire
In a height so long desired
As a winged-man to the sun
Who thought that his flight had you won
And from his fateful claim
Now ever falls aflame

All out heartache, you're adored;
But such a shock to weep in horror, as
One and two and three and four
My heaven's gate was at hell's door

[chorus]
On the written words we shared that day
Knowing the cost was weighed
It's just the price we paid
To that wicked dream I tried to cling
And though for naught it'd bring
I'd give you everything