City Of The Lost

In the City of the Lost is where I sold my soul We submit to exhaust and trade it all for control As the skeletons patrol for the time that I stole Add the clock to the count of a rising death toll I saw a man with no eyes in the sockets Both hands in his pockets looking for his lost love Mistook the black crow for a sullied white dove And shook hands with the devil for an ounce of his blood In the city of the lost, where nobody has a home With a lone chrome drill digging holes in your dome While you walk alone down the road made of hollow bones One wrong turn and end up in the catacombs Half-truths, or is it White lies Mask the death of your pride with some bright white lines Confined by the walls that pierce right through the sky And is a hundred-thousand lows worth the wait for one high? (No) And for just one time, I'll like to have a place that I can finally call mine (is that too much to ask?) And in the depths below, you can never find yourself if you never let go (so let it go) I left my heart burning in the city of the lost I've been careful with the dribble now it's time for the exhaust Between the legs, I cross while I activate the NOS In the end, my pond frozen resurrected Jack Frost Eight cold winters still got no sense of purpose Steady climbing to the surface, never forfeiting a versus Interluding in excursus meanwhile, I'm the ex she curses Fill the pain up with catharsis, forty percent when I'm nervous Validation? it's pathetic, crash and burning my kinetics Fall temptation, copacetic; overturning all my ethics Abandoning apologetic, taking off them cosmetics Frustrations are aesthetic, it's exotic and poetic Delusional coping as I suffer from reality checks Self-indulge and do not judge insecurity depths Grasp the cons, appreciate when the shiny reflects Life's a bitch, gotta learn to play off of her strengths And for just one time, I'll like to have a place that I can finally call mine (is that too much to ask?) And in the depths below, you can never find yourself if you never let go (so let it go) And just for one time, I wanna find a girl that I could call mine (it's impossible) And in the depths below, I found my old self that didn't wanna grow (so I let him go)