Fear Lives In Me
When will this all end?
Will our foes become our friends?
I don’t think so
But I don’t know,
So I let the fear inside me grow.
I tend to it
Make amends to it
I fret away
It won’t let me get away.
When fear lives in me
There’s no place to hide away.
A demon with many faces
Drawing me into its darkened places
All hollow, but I will follow
By hook or by crook,
Take back what you took
Find strength in what you mistook
But sometimes I don’t dare to look?
Embed, this fear inside my head
My being, all knowing, all seeing
Still I let fear reside
And tell it to get back inside.
My health held in a ransom demand
A trust fund of mistrust, not in my hands,
March to tune where fear is the band,
Only to jump not seeing where I land.
It’s a host parasitic,
A ghost apocalyptic,
Ashen faces seen in triptych
Taking hold, paralytic.
If fear is inside
It is my longest, darkest night,
By break of dawn
It should be gone,
But it chooses to remain.
I can’t control
Body, mind or soul
Will I ever be the same again?
I gave fear the key
A complexity of not knowing,
In this life am I coming or going?
I’m on my knees
So easy to please
The imposter
The Snollygoster,
I’ll lock it up now
And throw away the key,
Only I will know that fear lives in me.
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