so strip away all of my shadows and light me up brighter than the sun my hands are stong from building these gallows many will be left hanging before my time here is done before my time is done before my time is done well i could show you no merciful side again i could just hold you wouldn t that be nice one thing i know by now is that in the end you can never swim in the same river twice try and you re wasting your time oh i don t know why god made me this way i don t know how much more i can take you know it s always my mistake and i ll be sorry when i break you so take me high fly me over the mountains cry of the raven and the scream of the dove and i ll be gone on the wings of the eagles high road behind me left everything that i loved all of the things i loved oh i don t know why god made me this way i don t know how much more i can take you know it s always my mistake and i ll be sorry when i see that you re gone gone away like a god gone astray not a word will be spoken of how it broke me when i saw you broken broken broken when i broke you want it all but can t pay the bill just staring out my little window sill my companion one colorful pill nobody cares about what they can t kill