The Architect: This is futile, hapless effort to reach another’s heart Knot I can’t untie, puzzle I can’t solve Choir: Watching from afar, Distant as the stars The Architect: As all sentiments but the longing dissolve
Storyteller : This was just a bitter sweet endeavor Storyteller & The Architect: A girl chased by a boy, a boy chasing a dream Acerbic taste of youth is swinging into whole As my teenage hopes and wishes drown into a stream
The Girl & The Architect: “We never really had that sort of true connection” How come I never had a say, never had a say in games we played? “It didn’t have to come to this, it wasn’t my intention” The Architect: One vague smile from her and I saw the world begin to fade
Storyteller: Darkness fell; he’s finally opened its eyes Rejection, despair, woe and compromise Gazing on a pale horizon with vision unclear The last hint of light is fading away Casting shade that rolls over the sundial’s face
The Architect: We’re lost in our lives like rats in a maze Our feelings are smothered by indifferent haze Our world’s so hectic, chaotic, unjust We might find a shelter though the shelter won’ last
The Architect & Choir: Those are the feelings that hold us together A thought that crosses us as they’re conducting the theme Acidic taste of loneliness is blistering our tongues The things that make us human make us scream
The Architect: “We never really had that sort of true connection” I feel like I succumb, I shuffle back and I restart “It didn’t have to come to this, it wasn’t my intention” She smiled indifferently but with a different heart