What if I can't touch you
For to touch you is to crush you
And if I touch you and I crush you
I will crush and kill myself?

Can I catch you if you fall
Or do you want to crash and burn
Deep in the fires of hell
For you will never learn?

Will you let me change the skies
Teach the chick to fly
Or does it already know
Still inside the shell?

Should I, the fallen angel
Lie alone in my coffin of ice
Drown in the tears of a panther
Made to cry by a butterfly?

Who is allowed to see you
The you who is under the mask
Permitted to know the name
Kept from the rest of the world?

Shall I lower myself to the dark
Trade favours with the devil
To teach you a lesson in life
That nothing shines forever?

Do you hate me for the way I am
That I took what I thought you wanted
That I keep you broken beneath me
Or for being what you truly love?