The streetlights bleed upon

the wet pavement floor

I’m standing here,

just a ghost outside your door

The mask I wore has crumbled in the sand

Leaving nothing but the trembling of my hand.

Do you remember when the winter turned to spring?

Before the silence broke the promise of the ring?

I saw the reflection,

but I didn't know the face

Lost in the orbit of a cold and lonely place...

I never meant to be that man

I never meant to act that way

Will you please just let go

And follow me to paradise?

Don't let it end this way...

Don't let the shadows have their say.

The script was written in a language I forgot

Now I'm untangling the twisting of the knot

You built a castle out of whispered alibis

I burned it down beneath the heavy London skies.

It wasn't malice! It was fear!

The jester is crying, can't you hear?

Turn the page!

Stop the stage!

I never meant to be that man

I never meant to act that way

Will you please just let go

And follow me to paradise?

Don't let it end this way...

To paradise...

(Just follow me...)

To paradise...

I never meant to be that man.