I Am No God, An Effigy

Look past the horizon

The sun burns in your hands

I feel it searing, wandering

It's red skin on my palms

I look, keep away, run, running

No running, fearing, never cross me

While loving me tears me

I'm standing there expectantly

This feeling here, it burns through me

As all my heart, it burns on me

I am no god, an effigy

I'm left in rain, I'm left behind

I'm left alone to fend for life

These embers are what's left of me

I am no god, I am an effigy

I turned once (I turned once) to see myself (to see myself)

To lock my eyes (to lock my eyes), to love and live

And I kept turning (and turning), and turning (and turning)

And turning (and turning)

Still holding on, still grasping thin

I gather all that I am late

The spirit of my ecstasy

Is lost but gone, wasted on me

I beg for love, I beg for light

I give myself instead for life

I am no god, I am no god

I am an effigy