The Starry Skies

  Hello, may I borrow a minute of your time Oh, no, I hope you do not really mind I am not really asking, this is not a request This is more like a polite order You see, I have this old friend He lies awake through the night Sleepless, with no refrain Staring deeply within his past Of the future he remains unafraid His friends mostly forgot him With the exception of a few He was killed and numerously begotten Reborn anew Don't walk too close to his little home Don't listen too well to the music he's got on Don't knock on his door or say hello Don't you ever dare make it known That you're even within the place His sleeplessness begets a state Where everything is a shade of grey Nothing is true to itself Nothing lives on beyond its wealth Whatever a thing's worth is of no consequence Be his guest, he'll spare no expense In torturing you with your past In reminding you of who you were In telling you of days past Of showing your face in the mirror Pointing t...

  It was a dark night And darker yet was the future ahead We stayed together, you and me Afraid Perhaps it was the nerves that came across And told us that the world did end Perhaps it was the pain of the loss That made us feel that night was endless We didn't sleep, no we couldn't dare Then we slept through the process and the road A few years later you were in deep pain And I was reborn Anew, you and me, we conquer and win I make sure you're happy You're my happiness from within Dear Yusuf, please don't give up Or grow old and retire Your young precious spirit And innocence, they inspire They inspire hope within dreams What a dark trip we had taken recently Went together on a long drawn-out visit To the darker corner of our little heart The strangest spots within our mind The olden memories of a time past The things that have once declined I speak to you, brother to brother Man to man You are all that's left of her So stand And stay upright Ever so proud of wh...