Blood Orchid

Black cityscape 
Towering… 
Stone fangs tearing at the sky 
Putrid tears fall 

Black horrorscape 
Ghosts line these avenues 

These streets are trenches 
Ugly are these scars 
…and filled with rats they are 
Filled with rats they are! 

There are choirs, a ghost vesper for hope 
Like whispers beyond the roaring machinery 
So few the flowers in these gardens of rust 
Nested they rest ‘neath the carpet of dust 

I stand to watch the leaving birds spread their wings 
They will leave high above the chaos, high above everything 
While I hide deep within my flesh fortress under siege 
Where neither teachings nor syringes can reach 

There must be beauty beyond this rugged city where we’re confined 
There must be another meaning, greater than all their lies combined 
I’ve chosen another path, walking away from the strains of life 
search for the blood orchid in the rusted gardens of mankind 

Autumn clutched in the earthen arms of summer’s growth 
Beneath the canopy of warmth 
Where stars beacons the weary and small 
Yet every garden bear the witness of coming fall 

Few are the flowers in the gardens of man 
In these sparkling gutters of neon Babylon 

Ghost dance amongst the fortunate whores 
Scared and maimed the pale stumble on… 

Blood Orchid 
There must be beauty beyond this rugged city where we’re confined 
Blood Orchid 
There must be another meaning, greater than all their lies combined 
Blood Orchid 
I’ve chosen another path, walking away from the strains of life 
Blood Orchid 
search for you in these rusted gardens of mankind 

I stand to watch the leaving birds spread their wings 
They will leave high above the chaos, high above everything 
While I hide deep within my flesh fortress under siege 
Where neither teachings nor syringes can reach 

There must be beauty beyond this rugged city where we’re confined 
There must be another meaning, greater than all their lies combined 
I’ve chosen another path, walking away from the strains of life 
search for the Blood Orchid in the rusted gardens of mankind 

Blood Orchid 
Blood Orchid