Departure of the Pale Horse

Emerging into the light

A thousand empty pages left for me to write

And I won't subjugate my dreams to mortality

I won't live every day I have as if it was my last,

but I'll live each to the full

The poison stops, its work is done

I'm half surprised that I'm still standing

Returning now to the road

that I was on before this happened

Seems so long ago

The pale horse skulks away,

its rider empty-handed

It's not about some gift of courage

I only did what I was forced to

My will to live was stronger than

the will to die that I once had

But that I have let go, never to return

The preciousness of life

The lesson that I've learned,

that I've learned, that you've learned,

and that we all are learning still

(Where is your victory? Where is your sting? - x4)

I've looked death in the eye,

turned and walked away

There's nothing left to fear

(2x)

I have stood in the path of the tornado,

where life goes by in the blink of an eye

(No tickets - x6)

And they won't be selling tickets,

tickets to my funeral

I've dreamt them, I've dreamt them,

the nightmares from the pit

I have broken the back of the noonday devil

(I've crushed the skull of the devil underneath my heel)

(Let it rain - x2)

Keep raining now (6x)

I have brought my life in focus

I've brought my life in focus

I have brought my life in focus,

and it's perfect enough for me

(I won't waste it - x2)

I will begin again (3x)

(It's perfect enough for me - x3)

(Let it rain - x4)

I'm stronger than death (x16)

(And the pale horse departs - x4)