Suite 226 - Serious Black

It was spring of an early summer

Painted green with yellow swoon

I could taste the bitter freedom

I would lick it right off the spoon

In the sallow face of genius

In the early days of Pan

I found mystery and wonder

In the misery of man

Then the sun shines

In through your window

As the rains fall

Inside this hole

Hold your cup up

Call on your servant

That shackled you

Onto this throne

What a world is this?

Suite 226

Soon my shadow grew longer

And the colors all burned

And the storm just grew stronger

And the records still turned

I was lost in the thunder

I was lost in the rain

I was charmed by the silence

Distilled from their pain

Then the sun shines

In through your window

As the rains fall

Inside this hole

Hold your cup up

Call on your servant

That shackled you

Onto this throne

Then the sun shines

In through your window

As the rains fall

Inside this hole

Hold your cup up

Call on your servant

That shackled you

Onto this throne

What a world is this?

When I fall

Will you find me when I fall?

I never saw myself quite like this

I never pictured this

(My world feeds your world)

(Your world bleeds my world)

So I found myself inside

(I swear I didn’t know)

(I really didn’t know)

But all realities collide

(My world feeds your world)

(Your world bleeds my world)

«Can someone call the warden?»

«Lord, I’m dying here»

«Please, let me out», I’m crying

But nobody hears

There’s no nurse, just silence

Where’s the dinner bell?

This might be hell

But dying is the only tell

I’m breaking out (I'm breaking out)

Or so I tell myself this time

There’s no barrier

I’m breaking out (I'm breaking out)

This time I’m making it

This time I will make it out

I tried to spare my mother

Of my deepest shame

And I denied my father

Well, that’s all the same

Never wrote my sister

No one knows out there

No, not a single soul knows

I’m a prisoner here

I’m breaking out (I'm breaking out)

Or so I tell myself this time (This time)

There’s no barrier

I’m breaking out (I'm breaking out)

This time I’m making it

This time I will make it out