The Vicious Cycle

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Out plowing his fields alone A man with his harvest unsown His circles getting wider and wider Dragging stones to build his home Seal the tomb of his unknown His loneliness a gnawing spinning gyre Though the roots of corn lay trampled and torn As the damp wind proclaimed the winter's end When a friend made haste to bid him good day And that has made all the difference [Chorus] Do you exist at the moment in the solitude of noise? Do you exist at any moment at all? Are you truly a friend to those you call friend? Is your work worth the worry of it all, all, all? I am alone, I am alone, I am alone How long can this cycle go on? I am reaching out a hand to you, reaching out to you Please do not refuse, do not refuse [Verse 2] In a far-away city room A girl pants her poems to the moon Her walls eclipse all of her pagan dreams When reason wed with chaos Cries deliver a saint And her family ghost caught in that candle screams My garden is placed on my shelf with my pen Where it is safe from all that scraping pain Shall I chance myself my reflection again And go back naked to the rain? [Chorus] Do you exist at the moment that your kiss turns cold? Do you exist at any moment at all? Are you truly a friend to those you call friend? Is your work worth the worry of it all, all, all? I am alone, I am alone, I am alone How long can this cycle go on? I am reaching out a hand to you, reaching out to you Please do not refuse, do not refuse [Verse 3] Around a nearby corner In the hour of the stumble-home drunks Where the beggars all line up at the bakery Though they call for the loaves The man knows all of their names And he smiles as he bids them all good day And no smoke-filled rooms eating crow with a silver spoon Pouring salt into the wounds of friends And this shall be our rite of spring, to simply say we exist And then go back naked to the rain [Chorus] Do you exist at the moment that your bottle's full of empty? Do you exist at any moment at all? Are you truly a friend to those you call friend? Is your work worth the worry of it all, all, all? I am alone, I am alone, I am alone How long can this cycle go on? I am reaching out a hand to you, reaching out to you Please do not refuse, do not refuse