Babel

Things have never been better

Things have never been worse

In the land of the blessed

Being led by the cursed

Put your faith in yourself

And your trust in a few

Keep looking for light

And you'll find what is true

So many false idols

And fools on the hill

Driven by greed

And their own need to kill

Our ancestor's dreams

Where people live free

They're trading them in

For the profits they see
In ivory towers
Surrounded by gold
Selling their souls
As their bodies grow old
I will stand by their graves
On the day that they die
And nobody will mourn
Nobody will cry

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Metamorphosis

I was just a wanderer

A soul who'd lost his way

She was just a ray of light

That brightened every day

Wasn't looking for a lover

So afraid to make a friend

Afraid of starting over

Afraid to lose again

She gave me hours of her time

I shared with her my soul

Her smile healed all the pain inside

Her kindness made me whole

The more we met, the more I loved

The further my heart fell

Afraid that I might scare her

If my feelings I did tell

But over time I wore her down

She saw my heart was true

And realized no other love

Could love her as I do

So now my heart belongs to her

My love, my soul, my life

She is my world, my everything

My best friend and my wife.