It's been so long Without a ray of hope in sight I'm feeling lost Under these broken neon lights Erase all the pain Remember the strife makes us stronger When hard times get longer And I, a bird in a cage Will sing you a beautiful tune In the face of our doom (in my) Fantasy How did it ever get away from me South beach in summer on the rising sea I left you in a dream Tragedy We are the children of calamity Shards of the picture we were meant to be A broken fantasy A fading thought A distance closer than it seems Do you remember? Our perfect world Captured in my wildest dreams In disaster I'm barely alive I'm fighting to break free and see you again I know we'll survive And maybe I'll meet you at the end (somewhere in a) Fantasy How did it ever get away from me South beach in summer on the rising sea I left you in a dream Tragedy We are the children of calamity Shards of the picture we were meant to be A broken fantasy It's a walk through the mind Back in far better times In a different reality Kept your hope in a jar So you packed up the car To escape this tragedy But we lost the vision And I can't find myself anymore A lonely prison Locked with dreams of us before Fantasy How did it ever get away from me South beach in summer on the rising sea I left you in a dream Tragedy We are the children of calamity Shards of the picture we were meant to be A broken fantasy