it happened when the pleasure dried and the summer left a storm where the seeds of discontent reside and the darkest days are born i was withered worn and wonderless a waste in many ways deformation days beyond the hours i walk upon behind the minutes chime beneath the stones i stumble on before the cusp of time i saw her gesture to the sky and weep where her widow lay deformation days i was little more than food for thought and hungrier than hell but i would fill the empty spaces because silence knew me well but i can still be swallowed up by what that goddess says deformation days i saw the light cascade down and settle by the bush and my innocence was jeopardized every time i d take a look but seeing is a virtue despite the view that some display deformation days i was burdened with a crucifix cold shouldered by the king i was told he d shed a tear for me but that don t mean a thing if i have to carry all this weight and keep the wilderness at bay deformation days so when the drifters ask me now what then should i tell i m frozen from the rib cage in i was lifeless for a spell and i can t take a block of ice and pass it off as clay deformation days i was inhaling warfare exhaling higher crimes but destruction and obsession mean progression down the line and i ve been torn apart more times than i care to say deformation days as i lay wounded on the road where the beasts divide their kill it occurred to me the rate at which we exchange life for a meal and the earth is hungrier than i and i m lower down the chain deformation days i sit amongst the leaders now the lepers and the crooks and silence hangs as money talks its tongue stifled by a hook because you re only ever as rich as the wealth you have to save deformation days i saw her burn down the house and turn my sons to flame she disappeared soon after that and left me in this broken way but if i do see her again i d still ask her to stay deformation days she was my shepherd love and guide the answer when i d pray she d hold me up and breaking was the price she had to pay but the gods tell me to carry on that she ll return to me someday deformation days