Epitaph Lyrics - Fates Warning

Isolation freezes my life, coldness grips my heart 

Trapped within a world, a world apart. 

Desolate am I, a tempest raging silently. 

Lost a barren adrift at sea. 

Catatonic state, it sharpens life's depressing edge 

The clamor draws me closer to the ledge 

As I gaze upon this burning world I curse this life. 

A life through which I'm hurled 

Lies, lies upon this side and that 

Truthless violence deception mourned by the wise. 

Thousands of voices drowning out his own 

In a popular torrent of lies upon lies 

Turn to stone. 

So intense the pain that has crawled 

From the bleeding corpse of pleasure. 

That feeds the worm the writhes 

Inside my brain. 

In the deep of night it stirs again 

In the heart of the sleeper, 

From the crack of dawn I wake to curse 

The rising of the sun. 

Every life is built on hope 

Now my dreams have surely passed, 

Inner voices haunt my numbered days 

Darkness calls me with her laughs 

Torn between life and death inertia 

Fills my soul. 

No will to be nor pride to care 

Reapers take your toll. 

Strangers cast a menacing glance as 

Existence I defy. 

Shatter their dream like world I'm not 

Afraid to die 

Omen bird soars the desert land to the castle 

Of idolence, there lies the shadow of a man. 

See the colored flowers and marble towers 

They fade to brown 

Like the unknown inscribed in stone 

He's abandoned, abandoned flesh and bones 

He's lost in silence swallowed in vastness 

Drowned in the depths of a meaningless 

Past