oh baby... baby how i lost my mind? time is quite the killer when you're left behind. the airbag held you 'til the engine slept. at home your pillow cooled while the willows wept.

remember in the spring when i held your hand on the southern shore, finding fossils in the sand. oh baby, maybe someday you will find me on that beach beside you again.

they come and go, love. come and go... but they're all the same. even big, bad bad-boys get scared at night. it keeps them safe at home baby. i'm gonna throw this rock down... gonna throw it down... let it roll. tonight's the night i'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey. i'm gonna lose them.

gonna turn back time. i'm gonna save your life.
here we go.

so rapid the raptors, as coursers, they came all the scratching and screaming... i barely escaped while the fuel cells they drained far too fast, i am dragged like worms on a hook through the hole to the
blackness beyond at the end of days, where the world bleeds and burns...

the sun is black as sackcloth made of hair. the stars have fallen to the earth, mountians tearing from the ground. look at the people hiding from the red raindrops while earthquakes shake the broken timber of this burning town. there's poison in the water, the ocean's blood that's turned to slime and gotten hard. all the fish and whales are corpses on the scab in the darkness soldiers gnaw their tongues in pain, you see... so help me god, at the end of time they are screaming and on their knees! oh let them die!

oh please let them die!!!!

the king survived though his throat was cut. they say he's the chosen one. he leads our men from babylon.. the rebellion's worldy son... against the tyrant, we have joined with him as soldiers. he tells me this while he shakes a bit - he's staring at his gun. the painful stings of flying things have worn away his flesh and popped his eyes... at the blackness, he lashes out and cries:

you cowards and your wrathful god will see what power means when the dragon comes - his will be done - in the fires you'll be cleaned!
Oh let him rise!

oh please let him rise!

i watch these people fall. the dragon shrieks and burns it all. i flip the circuits on... i've got dragons of my own. the portal glows and my machine's detroyed.

the traveler has saved their souls from the destroyer of worlds. then why does his heart still scream? rise and speak...?? i couldn't save her. i know she will die. but please, if i could only tell her goodbye. all i want is just one more day... that morning in march...

i've fought reptilian monsters... i've crossed a bloody sea just to meet you here. and now i'm coming home, my dear. the light is ward, outside at dawn. the garden has no weeds, no grave beneath the tree... through the silent house, my love after all curled up in a ball there you are.

your socks on the wood floor... the moment i'd hoped for... i'm terrified to think you might be real.

i curl up behind you fit my body to yours like a shell. i smell your hair, oh love i can't believe you. i squeeze you to make sure you're really here, and i'm overwhelmed.

i've been waiting for so long to touch you and sleep in your eyes and now as my hearts beating so hard hold on and keep you at home in my arms.

they tried to console me but you're all the consolation i ever needed
years of smelling the clothes you left behind photographs that seemed so far away... i don't need them now. you turned to me... alive, awake, and blinking. baby back so soon you asked but i smile cause i never left at all.

you check the clock, it's time to go. you grab your keys and you're out the door. i step outside and you're waving goodbye. it's all happening again like before... as you're starting the car and i'm tearing inside. i knock on your window. you stop just in time around to the other side. i say "baby i thought i'd come along for the ride..."

time slows and i take your hand... i hold you as we loose control. baby hold on, we're almost.

my broken bride, you'll never die.


broken bride part I