Your Devoted Victim - Light This City

As a child

Monsters always haunted your panicked dreams

This time you’re the vampire

And though it’s cruel reality

You’re still trapped in a suffocating fantasy

Living out your most gruesome reverie

When will you let me wake you

From this painful dreaming

Don’t you realize you’re killing in your sleep

With claws of carelessness and fangs of apathy

Ripping holes in the flesh

Of the people you once esteemed

Just to smell the freshness

Of their final breaths and their blood

Yours went stale a long time ago

You’ll change your addiction

To appease your conviction

You’ve built quite the tolerance

For your previous obsession

But your new devotion

Requires some compassion

In the face of diversity

Your tolerance is lacking

Now you’ve indulged

Your feral temptations

You’ve awakened

And you say that you’ve had a vision of enlightenment

That you wish to be cleansed and saved

Wash yourself clean in a blessed stream

But there’s no such thing

And it’s never that easy

Innocence can’t be bought with a confession

You can’t just empty your sins into a pit of salvation

The guilt eats you just as you devoured your family

Why do you need a savior

When you could rescue yourself from the fear that drives your hate

You’ll change your addiction

To appease your conviction

You’ve built quite the tolerance

For your previous obsession

But your new devotion

Requires some compassion

In the face of diversity

Your tolerance is lacking

What did I do to deserve such silence

Such violence on your quest for self-destruction

You destroy us all as you feast on the last of your own blood

And taste the venom left behind

You consume my desiccated heart

And drain the consciousness from my mind

Take pity on me

Your devoted victim

Take pity on me

This sacrifice won’t set you free

Beware of the soul-saver

He’s not your friend

Why do you ask His forgiveness

I’m the one you’ve mistreated

Now ask yourself

Are you truly born again

Your pedestal reeks of death

A thick film of denial now coats your veins

There are hardly any left to penetrate

You had a life that refused to wait

For you to make another mistake

You’re bound to make another mistake