C'est la Vie

Feigned angel smiles through a vain facade

Projects a reel of all he's not

Callous malice freed to do as it wants

So it believes it can’t be caught

Every breath through gnashed teeth

A karmic breeze whose whisper screams

C'est la vie


There is a ghost behind the mind

Whose inner demons napped the inner child

Rage freed from its cage boils up from inside

A smile lets down deceit's disguise 

Can't trust a smile whose tongue’s in cheek 

Through the mind, the ghost still speaks

C’est la vie


Ghost hides from an ever present past

Nothing answers, no one asks

Fingers crossed behind his back

Even the reaper wears a mask

Curtain falls, unto the breach 

C'est la vie


Every monster once had a heart 

Bemused and buried from the start

Every man is a work of art

His twists of fate shoot in the dark

Some monsters made, some born to be

C'est la vie


Such is life that death cannot win

Can't feign grace, can't make fake amends

Man's enemy is death’s best friend

Death is his lover and death is his kin

So goes the ghost given the chance to breathe

C'est la vie


The feigned angel gives up his ruse

Plastic halo becomes unglued

His crown of light becomes his noose

Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth

Inflicting mind ends with its last breath

Such is death