Departure of the Pale Horse

Emerging into the light

A thousand empty pages

Left to me to write

And I won't subjugate my dreams to mortality

I won't live every day I have as if it is 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

I've returned 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 act 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?)

I've looked death in the eye

Turned and walked away

There's nothing left to fear

I have stood in the path of the tornado

Where life goes by in the blink of an eye

And they won't be selling tickets to my funeral, no tickets

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

Let it rain, keep raining now, keep raining now,

Keep raining now, keep raining now

I've have brought my life in focus, I've brought my life in focus

And it's perfect enough for me, it's perfect enough for me,

It's perfect enough me

I will begin again, I will begin again

I'm stronger than death

And the pale horse departs