Any Given Day (Strangers Like Me) - Arch / Matheos

Looking through stained windows

Blue and out of my asylum

The keeper of the key has lost the way

And locked the doors behind him

Beyond these walls and hallowed halls

There shines a new horizon

Draw the blinds, 'cause in my mind

I am a rock, I am an island

Enter the asylum, sanctuary waits

Through the gates of salvation

Never giving, never living

The keeper’s pleased to own you

There is always hell to pay

So on your knees and pray

Cause it’s any given, any given day

Bleeding through the windowpane

A purgatory rain is drowning me in sorrow

Will it wash away the pain?

Words before me answer not

And yet forever trying

I’d give my life, the life I live

To live like I was finally dying

Listen to the wind blow, something’s in the air:

There’s a bad moon rising

Keep denying, keep on hiding here

In this house of the setting sun

Counting one by one all my numbered days

And it’s any given, unforgiven

Insurrection, resurrection, any live long day

Halo of empathy, shine for all, but you deny me

Hate, rage, fear, they are here

Shaking like a wounded animal

Kept alive behind each door the keeper opens

Is a haunting memory

Whispers in the dead of night

The shadows of the liars…

They have come for me

Halo of empathy, shine for all, but you deny me

Hate, rage, fear, they are here

Shaking like a wounded animal

Please, Heaven, rain on me

Wash away my disease

Halo of empathy shine on me:

I believe, shine on me

Release ten-fold this stranglehold

And I’ll be free to live

Like I was finally dying

Burning the asylum, embers through the air

Through the gates of damnation

Rising from the ashes

Nothing’s going to keep me here

No one can ever own you

Nor should you ever dare

Embrace the fear of any given, be forgiven

Insurrection, resurrection, any given day…

And when it’s said and done

Dance with fate begun

Battles lost and won, hold on, hold on

The May queen turns the key

Unlocks a secret diary

Words bleed endlessly: how long, how long?

And in a twisted mind

Truth and lies are intertwined

Like a puppet on a string

I bring the Keeper back to life

The world I believe breeds strangers like me

Mortal asylums that shelter the disease

Wandering without aim, our devices shift the blame:

A death grip on a trigger, a plea of the insane

Resonance of sympathy, frequencies disharmony

Reversing my polarity turns beauty into ugly

Distorted bandwidth in our mind

Unravels wave lengths undefined

Relentless and malign, cycling over and over

Hold, hold on, you’re just a heartbeat away

Hold, hold on to any given day