Goodbye Lyrics - Emilie Autumn

And so I've said too much and not enough 

And so the play is finally at an end 

You never had the care to call my bluff 

And so I must be pleased to be your friend 

But what, then, was the purpose of this game? 

I never really had a chance to win 

It's true, I rather like who I became 

But what am I to do with who I've been? 

For I may wish to meet myself someday 

Among the ashes of a fire long dead 

To see my shadow there and hear it say 

That it was happy with the life it led 

What emptiness awaits me? This I fear 

Far more than any peril I might face 

My purpose in this world became less clear 

When you were taken from your cherished place 

Within my wishing heart and went your way 

So willingly it almost makes me ill 

To think it never crossed your mind to stay 

Pushes the dagger deep, completes the kill 

And yet how much of this was done by me? 

Had I the courage, would you still have flown? 

How sad to think this was not destiny 

But my mistake, yet how could I have known? 

Now here is my dilemma, as it seems: 

Do I accept the score that fate has set 

And calmly watch the passing of my dreams, 

Or do I dare to place another bet: 

That where the curtain falls another rises? 

If I am wrong, then strike me for my sins 

But I believe our acts and thin disguises 

Were but a prologue to what now begins