A Thousand Scars

Can you see the lines?
Can you feel the pain?
Can you touch the surface?
Can you speak the name?

Can you hear the sadness?
Can you taste the tears?
As I face the final curtain
Can you see me standing here?

Can you feel my open heart?
Can you touch the ground it breaks?
Can you feel the thunder of my voice?
Can you hear the sound it makes?

Can you trace the history?
Can you face the past?
Can you solve the mystery at last?
Can you see the man behind the mask?

Can you heal the wounded ones?
Can you make amends?
Can you live to see the monster sleeping?
Can you hold his ashes in your hands?

Can’t you see the mirrors in my eyes?
Can’t you see me falling in the streams?
Can’t you hear me crying for the others?
Can’t you hear the murder of a dream?

Can’t you feel them open now?
Can’t you see the scars remain?
They’re scattered in the pieces of our lives
Do you feel the same?

Let me see your faces, let me take the pain away
Let me heal a place within your heart
Let me feel the love remain

All of our afflictions, all in desperation
All of our convictions, call in lamentation
All the mutilation, all the desecration
All the fascination, all the lacerations

All that I want to face
All that my heart embraces
All that I live to see
All that I hope to be

In a thousand scars