You saved me all the way
would be a broken man today
without you I’d be twice the fool
or lie beneath a wooden roof

but, Ravenesse
it’s time you leave my
bittersweet memories
you have eaten all of me
but I just gave it willingly

when butterflies
turn to memories
their colours fading
but this is not a love song
though it may seem
this is just a song for me
to give up my dreams

oh, Ravenesse
it’s time you leave my
bittersweet memories
you have eaten all of me
but I just gave it willingly
oh, Ravenesse
it’s time you leave my
bittersweetest fantasies
you directed all my needs
so take my soul
but leave me here to live...

they say the first is the one
that never truly leaves a man
she sets up the rules
for all that comes after her reign
it is unknown, if her type
is typed into a man’s defaults
or if she leaves her mark
when she lets him in her world
which makes you so unique
yet so replaceable, as I was left with
but a notion what I’m chasing for
it seems that all, that seemed to bind us
are just confusions of love’s blindness

and maybe this is just me and my
fucked up ways
maybe y’all don’t need to understand
why this feeling stays

oh, Ravenesse, it‘s time you leave my
bittersweet...
so take my soul, but leave me here to DIE!

and now it’s time
to finally sort things out
to leave all of this behind
to leave it all for good
without a doubt, there’s
but one of your strings left
that’s attached to me
of all others I have managed
yet to wriggle free
but this one is knotted
tightly to my neck
moves my head into
directions - there and back
it’s the spell you cast upon me
that won’t seem to fade
that compelled me for these
past years Just to be a shade
that left me wondering
have I experienced
highest love or am I victim
to the biggest fraud
anyone could think of?
and now I ask myself:
is it you I long for?
is it my youth I long for?
or is the unspeakable truth
that you are just an excuse
for me to not go and find
someone new in time and
though I tried, I was always
way too comfy in my mind
in which deeper
and deeper I delved
to now finally realize
I’m the spellcaster myself

somehow I knew
it’s not you
that I got to give up
it’s all the excuses
and false modesty that
brought this train to a stop
no I can’t wait
once more for fate to
open that door if I can’t
‘cause if I don’t open
this one myself, I’ll never
walk through any other door
ever again
and I told you that this
ain’t no love song
it’s a song for me to rise
from the ashes of time
and grab what was always
supposed to be mine
no more missed
opportunities to be
hauntin this mind
just gotta be what I’m not
oh, Ravenesse
it’s time I killed that
man inside
that learned to hide
behind his pen of defence
and write these fucking
songs, man I could write
a million of them
but this one is
the last one of a kind
gotta go out and find
the rules to this fight