Fire Engine Red

Forgotten stories of excess Both real and fiction Too many hollow lives spent Chasing benediction We plummet to the earth like Scores of fallen angels Play out our tragedies on empty Weathered stages But before we lose it all The final curtain call Conflicted and dejected And dejected Beware the opulence inherent in confusion When reality's obsured By clouds of disillusion Held under far too long by The weight of our existence We labor fruitlessly against Both time and distance But before we lose it all The final curtain call Conflicted and dejected What's in the past can't be undone You've got to seperate to become one Your indecision hides the guilt Just underneath your clouded eyes So sick You’d sell your soul For another fifteen minute lie