Today I woke to find myself an orchestra with broken bells

And the sounds I made, they could have come from hell

Because hell is a place that I have found

Inside myself, not underground

And it all comes out when I open my mouth

Because I've held notes with a chorus of thieves

And I've begged for mercy on hollow knees

So when I say I'll change my ways

It's a promise that I will not keep

And I saw heaven with my own eyes

In a dream I had late last night

But it slipped away with the morning's light

So now I curse the rising day

As she pours into my painted grave

Yeah, that crown of fire, she cleanses everything

And the civil war has found itself

Brand new grounds on which to dwell

My heart and mind, through space and time

On the fringes of my fragile shell

So impart to me everything that I do not deserve to see

Please extend the vision you have given me

Purge my greed and I will become the sea

And despite my doubts

I will travel toward my fears and live them out

And stand up to the demons that I've kept around

Through ups and downs

I will watch them drown

In mercy's arms what I have learned

Is that I don't get quite what I deserve

It seems that I am measured on a curve

And all I've claimed to know of love

Are fruitless words from a foolish tongue

It's nothing I can really speak of

Because I was not there when the stars were hung

No, I did not arrange the moon or the sun

So who am I?

What silly pride to think that I am someone