Your beauty pulses like a distant star

Once you were so near to me and now you've gone so far

Wretched and asphyxed the word is in his stone

(Rigid and as fixed, the words, as any stone?)

Lying now - no move, nor speak no statue here alone

(Lying now, don't move or speak ... alone?)

Living here just with a memory

A simple recollection that's so dear to me

You said it's logical that we should part

What's pleasing to my intellect, must surely break my heart



Man will always want what he can't have

It's more than he can do just to be brave

He seeks perfection in a thousand ways

Just throw another shovel on his grave



Born to live

Born to die

Born to wonder

Why, why, why, why



If you there

Would you leave me wondering

If you there

I am one man under (I am one man only?)

If you there

Don't leave me wondering

If you there



You say that all we have is what we see

Baby, all you understand is a little part of me

You said that I could never be the one

Promises evaporate in the angle of the sun

If the only certain thing is death

Walk a little nearer to it now with every breath

And if this time must wear a velvet glove

Then kindness and lies are the true friends of love