With life's four-way stop The change in your shadow drops Fate pulls you down for the count With broken promises to amount Time seal our ways to the heart of our hiding placce When all our life lines are crossed Some scars can never heal from what we lost To fail the test and the power destroy To light the way where you have gone For all your funerals to come A requiem in death of some And it seems to be that consistency is not what lingers ahead But a virtue of the dead One of these days Hours pass the night's stage When your spirit won't turn on you The world shuts down with no reply to undo you Breathing, lifeless, not afraid to die Breathing, lifeless, you're afraid not to live Breathing, lifeless, not afraid to die Breathing, lifeless, you're afraid not to live To fail the test and the power destroy To light the way where you have gone For all your funerals to come A requiem in death of some