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Candy Coats and Silver Shreds
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The Long Night Between the candy coats and the silver shreds
My throat is dry and my eyes are red
This cigarette is shaking in my hands
As I fall back on my knees again
And I raise my voice up to the sky
For just one more day while I’m alive
To find the peace that I’m denied
As I puke my guts out in denial
Running away just has always been
The cure for life and my ailments
Drown my sorrows where they can’t see
The pain in my heart as it bleeds
Well I never knew what to do
I never had the answers to say to you
I never had the courage that I need
As I fall from grace for the world to see
Well the candy coats and the silver shreds
Are just reminders that I’m not dead
And as I look into the mirror now
I can’t help but ask myself how
The man in me has changed so much
Why is it that I could never get enough
And how does a heart begin to mend
From the ashes of a nightmare’s end
Well I’m falling faster into the lies
Remnants of my pain through my disguise
Knocking back another as I say
I’m going to be fine for one more day
Well I never knew what to do
Besides the vulgarity of all this abuse
I never was what I should have been
Another fallen angel in a world of sin
And I never knew what to say
To make your eyes turn my way
So the candy coats and silver shreds
Take me to dreams inside my head
