Hades

First footsteps on a path of broken hearts

Let me tell you where this story starts

Rain drums hard on the windows of your car

Love catching fire as you restrung my guitar

Smoking your hand-rolled cigarette

The first dark stains of my regret

Were yet to touch untarnished lips

Entering this game of insane battleships

Your plans took shape then now I see

Playing me as loud as you would Morrissey

His child-like words sung to sooth my fears

Would continue to haunt me down the years

My sanity a tightrope over a landmined field

Control of my life soon became yours to yield

Of this drowning ship I was no longer the helm

The blackest ocean of darkness began to overwhelm

Cradle and crush my soul without a care

Was I really the architect of this nightmare

When everything the devil says about you is true

And every painful line is thrown right on cue

No reason at all did I have to disbelieve

That I was headed to Hades with no reprieve

No benevolent hand from above with a cure

Fate’s not to blame, my failure is, for sure

Every night you left me a little more undone

Although it was me who loaded every gun

Floors littered with all the skins I’ve shed

Each one a victim evolved inside my head

The worst of creatures not underneath, but in my bed

Reflected in the mirror and sleeping in my head

This monster made my mind its home

Its terrible presence; at least I felt less alone

The rings you gave me were all hand grenade pins

Each one karma for my unforgivable sins

All the reasons I’m medicated to the hilt

And you drink at night to forget my guilt

When everything the devil says about you is true

And every painful line is thrown right on cue

No reason at all did I have to disbelieve

That I was headed to Hades with no reprieve

No benevolent hand from above with a cure

It was all my failure, of that I am sure

Now, you tell me where this story ends

Or I’ll believe the message the devil sends

Until I’m laid down beneath the floor

I’m closer to Hades than ever before.