Building A Ruin - Skyclad

My life is a sentence that carries no pardon

I can’t put you out of my misery now

So stunned by the beauty of this madhouse garden

I’ve taken my chances then lost them somehow

This body’s a temple, a shoddy construction

I’m digging my grave while boring the well

I’m paving a path to my own self-destruction

I won’t be content 'til I see me in Hell

No I won’t be content 'til I see me in Hell

I’ve looked back on my time, the names and the faces

A child long ago that I nearly forgot

And felt like someone who’d just stepped on the place

Where the last stair should have been, then found it was not

Life’s just a process of delamination

Stripping your hopes, dissecting them gently

I’ve opened my heart and to my consternation

When I peered inside it was small, dark and empty

My friends turn to me

Wonder what I am doing

Drinking and smoking like somebody died

I said: «Leave me alone

I’m just building a ruin

The spirits are sunken so the wreckage must rise»

(I'm building a ruin)

I’m building a ruin

(I ruin a building)

I ruin a building

(I'm building a ruin)

My bridges are burned out

(I ruin a building)

My tunnels are filled in

It’s all a game I believe

The longer you play it, the harder it gets

The most I can hope to achieve now’s my breakfast

A priest with a blindfold and last cigarette

My friends turn to me

Wonder what I am doing

Drinking and smoking like somebody died

I said: «Leave me alone

I’m just building a ruin

The spirits are sunken so the wreckage must rise»

I won’t be content 'til I see me in Hell