The Killjoy Lyrics - Insomnium

To know love is to ache, 

hurt yourself and repent 

For in the end all is gone, 

lights go out, your time is spent 

If I were you I would retract and lock my heart 

Concede defeat and admit I was off the mark 

If I were you I would turn away and hide my face 

Swallow my pride and then finish ere its all disgrace 

All of our dreams now laid on the sand 

To wait by the perilous tides 

To be washed away into the depths 

And sink without a trace 

Just a fools hope remains 

To rejoice is to lapse, 

fool yourself and repent 

Mirth will soon turn into woe, 

reveries to contempt 

If I were you I would now bring the curtain down 

Accept my lot and thus fathom out my own bounds 

If I were you I would rue the day when I was born 

Cleanse all in life and redeem myself from scorn 

Remember these words when tide is turning 

The less you hope for, the less you suffer 

If you dare to trust, then you shall shatter 

Lunge from the heights and fall to smithereens 

And when you come here with charred wings and a defiled heart 

Wait not for compassion or words of consolation 

For only a gleeful smile is greeting you