Building A Ruin Lyrics - Singles - Skyclad

My life is a sentence that carries no pardon, 

I can't put you out of my misery now, 

So stunned by beauty of this madhouse garden - 

I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow). 

This body's a temple - a shoddy construction, 

I'm digging my grave - while boring the well, 

I'm paving a path to my own self destruction, 

I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell. 

No I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell. 

I've looked back on my time - the names and the faces, 

A child long ago that I nearly forgot, 

And felt like someone who'd just stepped on the place 

where the last stair should have been - (then found it was not). 

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Life's just a process of delamination, 

Stripping your hopes - dissecting them gently. 

I've opened my heart - and to my consternation 

when I peered inside it was small, dark and empty. 

[Chorus] 

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing, 

drinking and smoking like somebody died. 

I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin, 

The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise." 

I'm building a ruin - I ruin a building, 

My bridges are burned out - my tunnels are filled in. 

It's all a game I believe - the longer you play it the harder it gets. 

The most I can hope to achieve now's my breakfast, 

a priest with a blindfold and last cigarette... 

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing, 

drinking and smoking like somebody died. 

I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin, 

The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise." 

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My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing, 

drinking and smoking like somebody died. 

I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin, 

The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise." 

I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell.