When Darkness Falls

I keep company with shadows
I'm familiar with deceit
There's no such care for callous acts when you start to see
The oath forgives no one who's foolish enough to speak
Of why we keep nights such as these

I keep company with phantoms
Of the life I left behind
I've let my world go up in smoke one too many times
Underneath the ashes, the embers speak to me
Of why we keep fires such as these

Keeping to dark
Keeping to ourselves
The secrets almost seem to want to tell themselves
Written in the stars
Bidden to compel
If duty calls when darkness falls
We'll meet it just as well

I know the bitter taste of beauty
And how it keeps evading me
But I will smile with my teeth to rewrite what it means
World so cruel dealt me a hand of aces made of flames
There are no rules in a rigged game

I know revelry so harrowed
And I know just what it means
Come prepared for swift attacks, be prepared to bleed
My Geis allows nothing but lies when I speak
Of why I keep ties such as these

Keeping to dark
Keeping to ourselves
The secrets almost seem to want to tell themselves
Written in the stars
Bidden to compel
If duty calls when darkness falls
We'll meet it just as well

Royal floorboards overhead
Swallow our ephemeral footsteps
Shadows rising
Memorializing
The beating heart in my hand
So wash our dais in black and red
Arrange the bones left in our stead
Illusory throne
Reaped and sown

Keeping to dark
Keeping to ourselves
The secrets almost seem to want to tell themselves
Written in the stars
Bidden to compel
If duty calls when darkness falls
We'll meet it just as well