I am like the devil
Looking up at you from levels far below
Was it love that cast me out?
Or was it doubt the kind that springs from fear?
If I earned a second chance
And won a brief forgiving glance from you
I'd be sure to fail again
And so there's no one I can blame but me

Leave me to my ring of fire
As long as I can see you higher
Safe here in my sad desire
I feed off these flames

Beauty was my master
And she led me to disaster and decay
And you are a quiver
Full of arrows that deliver shafts of pain
Once I was the prince of light
And gazed upon eternal night and cried
Now I am the man you pity
Roaming out across this city without peace

Leave me to my ring of fire
As long as I can see you higher
Safe here in my sad desire
I feed off these flames