Refugee of Truth

My footsteps break through the ice
Dead laughter in the breeze
Alone in the night
A prisoner of love's mortality
Ahhh

There's a house somewhere
Two strangers that share my name
But home is a memory and it's one
I never can reclaim

A drunk man couldn't
Tell my daddy's face from mine
There's a hole in the mirror
Where his iron rings and his rage align
Ohhhh

I was thirteen for 6 years
Captive of fear refugee of truth
On my nineteenth birthday
My hair turned gray and I lost my youth

Hollow eyes stained
With the hues of heartbreak
Running like a dream
Flees from hope's decay

I always knew it's wrong
I just never knew what's right
It's hard to win when you don't
Know what to fight

I thought she'd be the one
To help me rise above
But her words were smoke
That hid the ashes of our love
Ahhhh

There's a ship crushed by the sea
One storm ends but another comes
I tried to get out
But to my past
Was just the way I knew how to run

There's flaming signs lit up
In twilight streaks of hate
They burn out or they burn you down
On pain's crusade
Ohhhh

There's a new day not the dark
Or the light somewhere in between
It's the best I can do to not give in
To the shards of my shattered dreams