The Chamber - Broken on a Wheel (demo)
BROKEN ON A WHEEL
The moon comes gliding, pale and slow, behind the bay,
As you're hiding in your shelter, blown away,
'Cause my words move you, my words seem to make you feel
When you're down and out and broken on a wheel.
"Lover, my mind's way beyond the stars,
But can't you see I'm stuck behind these bars?"
Your silence is a cloud that hangs upon my sleep,
That makes me want to cry, that makes me want to weep.
Your muteness is a shroud that keeps me singing loud,
And it hurts so bitterly, bitterly, oh, bitterly, bitterly
My dreams aren't secret, they won't take me anywhere,
They will drag me down and make me cease to care.
And I am raving, I am raving through this night,
Oh, I know that I've been raving all my life.
"Lover, my heart's broken on a wheel,
But can't you see my heart is throbbing still?"
I never said a word to make you cross the line,
I never called you love or said that you were mine.
You're lying on the ground, you're waiting to be found,
And it hurts so bitterly, bitterly, oh, bitterly, bitterly.
And though I'm fainting, though my mind is in dismay,
I will say the words that I've been trying to say:
That you're not sighing, you're not gazing at the stars,
You are simply growing older behind these bars.
"Lover, my heart's broken on a wheel,
But can't you see my heart is throbbing still?"
You never saw the day, you never wished the light,
You never knew your love, you never knew its might.
You never touched the sun, you never touched no one,
And it hurts so bitterly, bitterly, oh, bitterly, bitterly.