Sifting through the ashes   With unsteady hands    Searching for the remnants   Of a broken man      A history of hollow lives   And low ideals   A backlog of wrongdoing   We never conceal      I stand up   And walk away from the dross    Towards the doorway    Of our mutual and harrowing loss      The only way I know    To shake myself of this curse    Is to bring myself to something    That is measurably worse      CHORUS   I sought refuge in a house on fire   I took shelter in a wall of flame   I built a prison in my own subconscious   There's nothing else left   Nothing else left to blame.       Emerging from the wreckage    Of a life that once was   Confounded by the damage    My own psyche does      I bear the scars    Of an insufferable will   And the tyrannical reign    it threatens to instill      Some seek control   By grabbing hold of their lives   In a futile attempt    To help themselves survive      I dig myself   Into a much deeper hole   Running from a fate   That I can never control      (CH)      I woke up   In a column of ash   While the world came down    In a horrible crash      I was naive    For ever wanting this much    Using self-deception   As my only crutch      Footsteps diverge   From the path they once walked   Words are eclipsed    By the language they talked      Actions betrayed   By promises broken   Flames consume intentions   Best left unspoken