The Vicious Cycle

[Verse 1]
Out plowing his fields alone
A man with his harvest unsown
His circles getting wider and wider
Dragging stones to build his home
Seal the tomb of his unknown
His loneliness a gnawing spinning gyre
Though the roots of corn lay trampled and torn
As the damp wind proclaimed the winter's end
When a friend made haste to bid him good day
And that has made all the difference

[Chorus]
Do you exist at the moment in the solitude of noise?
Do you exist at any moment at all?
Are you truly a friend to those you call friend?
Is your work worth the worry of it all, all, all?
I am alone, I am alone, I am alone
How long can this cycle go on?
I am reaching out a hand to you, reaching out to you
Please do not refuse, do not refuse

[Verse 2]
In a far-away city room
A girl pants her poems to the moon
Her walls eclipse all of her pagan dreams
When reason wed with chaos
Cries deliver a saint
And her family ghost caught in that candle screams
My garden is placed on my shelf with my pen
Where it is safe from all that scraping pain
Shall I chance myself my reflection again
And go back naked to the rain?

[Chorus]
Do you exist at the moment that your kiss turns cold?
Do you exist at any moment at all?
Are you truly a friend to those you call friend?
Is your work worth the worry of it all, all, all?
I am alone, I am alone, I am alone
How long can this cycle go on?
I am reaching out a hand to you, reaching out to you
Please do not refuse, do not refuse

[Verse 3]
Around a nearby corner
In the hour of the stumble-home drunks
Where the beggars all line up at the bakery
Though they call for the loaves
The man knows all of their names
And he smiles as he bids them all good day
And no smoke-filled rooms eating crow with a silver spoon
Pouring salt into the wounds of friends
And this shall be our rite of spring, to simply say we exist
And then go back naked to the rain

[Chorus]
Do you exist at the moment that your bottle's full of empty?
Do you exist at any moment at all?
Are you truly a friend to those you call friend?
Is your work worth the worry of it all, all, all?
I am alone, I am alone, I am alone
How long can this cycle go on?
I am reaching out a hand to you, reaching out to you
Please do not refuse, do not refuse