[Verse 1]

It is my own home's affliction

Behind bars, within a cage

I've been marked the plague's possession

And I've been locked in for days

There's a ruckus in the streets

Those I begged to stay inside

Soon the noise gives way to silence

For a moonlit lullaby

[Verse 2]

Oh, my mind, oh, my mind

Thoughts are fleeting all the time

I feel bones begin to splinter

As my fever starts to climb

Who's to blame, who's to blame

For the blood that wrought this shame?

Now my ears have started ringing

To a symphony of pain

[Chorus]

My blood's contagion

Brings transformation

But all I want before the doom

Is to see the streets outside this room

Don't leave me waiting

My lantern's fading

And I won't be awake to see

The monster that becomes of me

[Post-Chorus]

Let me see the sky one last time

Come home and take me outside

[Verse 3]

The new beast is isolation

When I'm haunting my own home

I feel walls are closing inward

And my soul leaves me alone

Here I struggle in the darkness

To remember my own name

I've caught glimpses through the window

That the world is not the same

[Verse 4]

Flesh and bone, hunger's grown

Cries become an endless drone

I fear soon I'll be the hunted

Like the multitudes below

Someone's there, someone's there

Night is coming and I'm scared

Starving wolves outside are howling

And I join them in their prayer

[Chorus]

My blood's contagion

Brings transformation

But all I want before the doom

Is to see the streets outside this room

Don't leave me waiting

My lantern's fading

And I won't be awake to see

The monster that becomes of me

[Post-Chorus]

Let me see the sky one last time

Come home and take me outside

[Bridge]

Dark signs flashing in my

Cold mind, succumbing now with

No time left to cure the pain

Pale and clawing blindly

Life still clinging tightly

But my own blood has been claimed

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

My blood's contagion

Brings transformation

But all I want before the doom

Is to see the streets outside this room

Don't leave me waiting

My lantern's fading

And I won't be awake to see

The monster that becomes of me

My blood's contagion

Brings transformation

But all I want before the doom

Is to see the streets outside this room

Don't leave me waiting

My lantern's fading

And I won't be awake to see

The monster that becomes of me

[Outro]

Let me see the sky one last time

(Let me see the sky one last time)

Let me see the sky one last time

(Let me see the sky one last time)

Let me see the sky one last time

Come home and take me outside