I Was There

Salt for a stone, skin from the bone

A fission, division from merged to alone

Composure to dust turns sterling to rust

The marriage of fire and frozen combusts

I was there when a bomb went off in his heart

That sudden release that ripped him apart

It scarred and imploded the space in his soul

His dreams are craters, his life a hole

Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse

Burnt memories and shrapnel diffuse

Melting to blood, the blue flames above

Paint sulphurous shadow elegies to love

Copper from gold, the banding unfolds

The halo of hope goes from tender to cold

The shockwave swells, the pressure grows

When passion explodes we burn in the glow

Same scars when part of me died

But I lived and came out the other side

The sorrow is worth the redemption you'll feel

Life spins like a wheel when you start to heal

I saw the mind of my first love destroyed

The detonation pulled him into the void

I watched from the side as the madness evolved

Like you, I'm a witness but can't get involved

Tattooed to my mind, frozen in time

A bomb in his hand, glass turning to sand

One union dissolves, another is made

Powder to spark to brilliance to dark

The paper corrupts, the pavement erupts

Screams from the streets shatter the peace

Silence from sound, then confusion to calm

A fire dawned, and then she was gone

Remember the girl

I was there (x8)