When The Hanging Comes

Heaven only knows Just how far I've come I know it shows When the drinking's done Morning always rises I can blame it all I want The truth just comes to head When the Hanging comes Too many rules in the game All these cards just look the same As I try to entertain my restless mind Smoke is turning in the sky It's still burning from the rite The sky is dark but it's not night Heavy head Foreign bed Have I finally reached the dead When the world never seems real And it burns right where I feel All around me I see souls In these green and lonely halls The Gods of Fate sharpen their knives Then turn to me with ancient eyes They've sewed a thread I've always worn Around my neck since I was born And it chokes me when I pray It won't let me run away Where I rise and where I fall I will always want it all That's your curse and that's your game And it's writ in your own name You can't run and you can't hide from this fire that's eating you alive Sober I can lie and lie Hungover I can't hide Curse this self-inflicted pain Have I finally gone insane? Now the drink won't satiate It will only set ablaze All you're trying to escape the Gods have sewn into your Fate And this noose of open flames Neither prayer nor time can change Take the cards you're dealt with grace You're the Joker so you say Tell the souls around you what you threw away Heaven only knows Just how far I've come I know it shows When the drinking's done Morning always rises I can blame it all I want The truth just comes to head When the Hanging comes