Building A Ruin lyrics

Song information

Artist: Skyclad
Album: The Answer Machine?

Lyrics

My life is a sentence that carries no pardon
I can't put you out of my misery now
So stunned by beauty of this madhouse garden -
I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow)

This body's a temple - a shoddy construction
I'm digging my grave - while boring the well
I'm paving a path to my own self destruction
I won't be content 'til I see me in hell

No I won't be content 'til I see me in hell

I've looked back on my time - the names and the faces
A child long ago that I nearly forgot
And felt like someone who'd just stepped on the place
Where the last stair should have been - (then found it was not)

Life's just a process of delamination
Stripping your hopes - dissecting them gently
I've opened my heart - and to my consternation
When I peered inside it was small, dark and empty

[Chorus]
My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing
Drinking and smoking like somebody died
I said "leave me alone I'm just building a ruin
The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise."

I'm building a ruin - I ruin a building
My bridges are burned out - my tunnels are filled in

It's all a game I believe - the longer you play it the harder it gets
The most I can hope to achieve now's my breakfast
A priest with a blindfold and last cigarette..

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing
Drinking and smoking like somebody died
I said "leave me alone I'm just building a ruin
The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise."

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing
Drinking and smoking like somebody died
I said "leave me alone I'm just building a ruin
The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise."

I won't be content 'til I see me in hell

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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