a Part 

Prechorus
It cannot be win or lose
sides are not for you to choose
Life is an open plane
tho few live it unchained

does it feel as long on the way to the top
as when I'd fall to a dead stop
If balance is what I crave
why do I tip the scales out of phase

Have I beenlost amidst as Time has passed
I feel constrained through the hourglass
Am I afraid of wasting away
when things are not going my way

Prechorus
i hate this lack of direction
no compass, no way
what is this predilection
to fall off the causeway

Prechorus
Just why are we all here
No one can really say
Know Life isn't a free ride
in the end we'll all pay

I know I'm not that stable
looking for foundations that are capable
to free me from
an irredeemable oppression

I throw around the weight of the world
just to be there to watch it unfurl

if you Build your soulbridges sure
in loved ones memories will I endure

There are many truths
choose the one best for you

Chorus (purposefully meant to not be sung melodicallyl

"why" - my fear to stifle  courage
"why" - my malice to harm compassion
"why" - my regret to steal satisfaction
"why" - my hysteria to strip serenity
"why" - my conceit to trod humility
"why" - my Hate to blind love
"why" - my greed to consume generosity
"why" - my apathy to let drown diligence
"why" - my pain burns away pleasure


"cuz" - My courage stands up to fear
"cuz" - My compassion pacifies malice
"cuz" - my composure restrains hysteria
"cuz" - My humility puts conceit in its place
"cuz" - my Love soothes (embraces) Hate
"cuz" - My temperance tempers my greed
"cuz" - My diligence to act against sloth
"cuz" - My hope uplifts despair
"cuz" - My pleasure ovverides pain
"cuz" - My satisfaction forgets regret

i hate this lack of direction
no compass, no way
what is this predilection
for falling off the causeway

WHY - all this hate
WHY - all this malice
WHY - all this regret
WHY - all this excess
WHY - all this conceit
WHY - all this greed
WHY - all this apathy
WHY - all this pain
why - abandon reason for madness
why - give in to grief and sadness

my thoughts never to be free
to speak, has never been easy for me
a mental blockation, 
that overflows with frustration

is this the illusion of delusion
when I think I am more
but the emptiness of potential
is what I'm stuck with and abhor

but its a part of life
its a part of Me
its a Part of the balance that we seek
The seed of night exist in day, and day is nothing without the night

Why do we: abandon reason for madness
lose hope to despair and sadness
let regret shadow satisfaction
allow my malice, to mar compassion
drown diligence, in apathy
watch conceit trod humility
blind to love, see only hate
why destroy, when I can create
my hysteria strips serenity
my greed consumes charity
have pleasure burned in pain
give in to fear, courage's bane


"cuz" - My madness 
serentiy reins hysteria
humility 

because we:

courage stands up to fear
"cuz" - My compassion pacifies malice
"cuz" - my composure restrains hysteria
"cuz" - My humility puts conceit in its place
"cuz" - my Love soothes (embraces) Hate
"cuz" - My temperance tempers my greed
"cuz" - My diligence to act against sloth
"cuz" - My hope uplifts despair
"cuz" - My pleasure ovverides pain
"cuz" - My satisfaction forgets regret