One Step Closer

One step closer to death
 You better take one last breath
 One turn on the edge of the dial
 You sinned yourself,
 but embraced the child who ran from his fate
 Is heaven a way
 for those who chose to know and negate?
 One crack in the wall of your mind
 a lonely rose, get better with time
 and it shows
 And you should understand that we're all here now
 Same as it ever was
 One more kiss before we're bound
 One more prayer before you sleep
 One more tear to make our peace
 One more touch to feel the cold
 Keep it with you as you go
 And you go alone
 CHORUS
 And will you bathe yourself tonight
 In the tears of another
 To escape the trail of light
 That'll follow you down, down, down
 And will you bask in candlelight
 While the tears of another drown
 In the answers that you sought
 In a love you never found
 And everything is cloudy on these days
 But the lights are beautiful
 As the embers frame your face
 Daylight break, and tears apart any fortune that I had
 As I hold you in my arms
 I watch my treasure turn to ash
 It slips from my grasp
 Chorus
 Lay me down
 Lay me down
 Toss a rose on my old resting place for now
 I put my ear to the ground
 Won't you tell me everything now that you're bound
 Lay me down
 Lay me down
 Toss a rose on my old resting place for now
 One step closer to death
 You better take one last breath
 One turn on the edge of the dial
 You sinned yourself,
 but embraced the child who ran from his fate
 Is heaven a way
 for those who chose to know and negate?
 One crack in the wall of your mind
 a lonely rose, get better with time