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