Cancer – A Bloody Canvas – letras

“Compassionate winterEmbrace me in your web of whiteAs the frozen sunset sheds the lightFrom my blackened lips”A sunset falls over a silent scene as I fall into cocaine dreamsOf a day when the world turns over just for meCool mountain air seeps through my bones, brittle as they areI’ll wish upon a distant star, hoping, only hopingFor a white ChristmasWith this winter chill I wish the sky will open and give me the greatest gift of allA parade of red snowflakes, a monotonous orchestraA day when the world turns over just for me“Too young to know that thunderstorms aren’t terribleFor every drop of rain that falls into a fieldMust yield to a flower with intent to grow”Tonight the sky will shed its solemn tears in shades of black and grayA quiet rainstorm ensures that wilted flowers will find strength to endure winterA single rose, unwanted and unloved, cracking through the pavementWith no room to grow it slowly witheredWhen is a rose not a rose? When does a rose lose beauty?Tonight the skies will open up; the clouds have shed their solemn tearsAnd a life once lost returns to color, lucid now like a crystalClear skies and butterflies, beauty is restored“Heartbreaking, the silence emanating from the sonThe monotonous orchestra arrived, along with a silent paradeA fragile heart is broken as a life is set freeI will live forever as the man I meant to be”Lay me out in my Sunday best; make me handsome, make me proudYou watched me grow up, watched me fallStood by my bedside through it allA man in black came with a book todayHe said, « Son take my hand and let us pray »Now on the same bed, my body lies and at my feet my mother criesThe boy she loved with heart and soul, not yet a man at eight years oldWith my eyes shut tight I can finally see, the fine young man I would never beNow my mother, who never prayed, screams « please don’t take my son away »I’ll come tonight to lay blue roses at your feetI will live forever as the man you’ll never meet…