Ice Facades

I'll pass by like a stranger should My mask of ice still holding good Like poison dripping through my veins You clutch me close, but love refrains Your fingertips trace phantom lines While shadows dance through your designs That wicked smile cuts like a blade I won't submit to games you've played How many hearts have bled for you? How many souls you've wandered through? And over and over again They've passed like smoke through empty halls Never breaching your crystal walls You've danced on strings of countless fools Now here I stand among your tools Behind glazed eyes, you drift apart Someone else owns your restless heart This hollow dance of flesh and bone Leaves both of us equally alone And over and over again Don't dress this up in fancy lies We're just two moths beneath night skies Crashed together, torn apart Playing roles in your fine art Let's split these paths while pride remains Before we rust in autumn rains Don't poison wells you'll never drink Don't break the chains you'll never link When next you're wrapped in someone's dream Spinning tales of love supreme Our eyes might lock across the crowd Like ghosts beneath a thunder cloud A slight turn of your graceful head Whispered words left hanging, dead I'll pass by like a stranger should My mask of ice still holding good