Sink into the sleep, the eternal sleep of time

So long ago now, we met, we loved,

So long ago it feels too long,

Like another life stretching behind me.

I wonder if you knew what was to come.

Death is so final, and life so fleeting,

We all say that others are too young,

Too young to have truly lived.

You lived a long life of emptiness,

You never knew how to live.

Sink into the sleep, the eternal sleep of time.

So long ago now, I tried to teach you.

Tried to bring you into the world.

You never listened to my warnings,

Danger is lurking out there.

I taught you to breathe but you went too far,

Had to go into the shadows and the dark.

And now you're lost forever,

Lost in the circling dark of time,

You'll never awaken again.

Sink into the sleep, the eternal sleep of time.

You were suffocated in your mind,

You were long dead before you died.

All those memories you let dictate you,

You wouldn't let them be.

But now I'm left with the memories,

All those memories I wanted to lose.

I want to forget you, forget what you were,

Let go of your voice and your love,

As you sleep until the end of time.

Sink into the sleep, the eternal sleep of time.

Your tomb stands as a reminder,

An eternal reminder for all to see –

You tell the future how to live and love

So that they won't end up like you.

They won't let themselves live a lonely life

Of nothing but misery and pain.

They use the example of you and me

Of how to love and be as one,

But they won't lay down to sleep.

Sink into the sleep, the eternal sleep of time.

But unlike them I want to sleep,

To sink into a hazy dreamless state.

I have nothing left for me on this Earth,

I just want to join you in heaven.

For all your faults and mine as well,

You were my love and why I breathed.

When you let yourself sleep you destroyed me too,

I can never truly live again,

So I sink into the eternal sleep of time.