HALF OF ME

Tormented twins

Once lost to you and I

Surrendered to the pain

In the age of Gemini

Caught up in the swirl

Of life gone spiraling down

Watched tormentors

- As they plundered

Left our bodies to the ground

Tried to live in spirit

Seek some answers to the melee

But the question – never answered

Became the plague

To steal our lives away

Tried to kill the pain

In the bottom of a bottle

Seek to drink away the stain

Yet just left there feeling hollow

"How could this be?

How could they do it?

How did I let it happen?

How did I ever choose it?

It wasn't ever fair

All I did was try to give

But now I'm empty

And I'm broken

And I've no life left to live"

But then there from the bottom

From the bottom of that pit

Was an inkling of hope

So we rose to reach for it

Back up on our feet

Try to climb a little bit

Then realize THE LIE

Was the cause for all of this

Suddenly the anger

Was another form of power

That awoke us to our hunger

To restore us from the cowards

- Then something more subtle

Started to take flight

It was us – the rising Phoenix

Lending fire to the light

Sort through all the pieces

Try to put them back together

But then see from all the shards

How to make a different picture

Rebuilding what once was

Neither twin could ever seek

But this idea - Have something better!

Gave the blind new eyes to see

And in that ray of hope

And in the moments that would come

Start to melt away the pain

And forget the damage done

Start to get the smile back

That once was wiped away

- Start to find the courage

To look ourselves back in the face

And in that moment when we realize

This was all some master plan

This was our chance to start it over

To be free from their demands

And that freedom took us over

And it gave us eyes to see

Our cause and one true love

Is this other half of me