The Great Attractor

I've felt your heart
Beneath the broken skies
Tethered to earth while you
Reach for divine

Watched your birth from ash and dust
Tangled between pain and trust
Porcelain in a blaze
Mercy and blade
A fleeting spark
In the shadow of fate

You hold the world
With trembling hands
Chasing figures of light
In shifting sands

Yet every touch of you
Leaves a scar behind
A stain on skin
A mark in time

On the outside
I'd do anything at all
With my hands tied
As I watch you fall

Observing

Hollow gaze
As the world decays
A Tender lie
In golden chains

You reach for fire
But you cradle thorns
Finding comfort in the edges worn

You hold to beauty that breaks
In a body that bleeds
Call it love in desperate pleas

On the outside
I'd do anything at all
With my hands tied
As I watch you fall

Oh, in the ashes that remain
I would hold your fading flame
All is broken beyond mending
And some paths remain the same

Observing

Is love a lie
Dressed up in fire?
Or just a wound that we desire?

On the outside
I'd do anything at all
With my hands tied
As I watch you fall

Oh, in the ashes that remain
I would hold your fading flame
All is broken beyond mending
And some paths remain the same

So show me mercy
Behind the fear
A lover's touch
Fading, insincere
Or is every vow just empty breath
Pull me close
Then let me taste
Death