Only Me Still

{clean electric guitar

riff} {soft ride cymbal} {building tension}

You closed the gates to the outside town

Locked the shutters and pulled them down

No more room for the passing crowd But you kept my name

aloud

{bass enters on

root notes} They all said your heart had turned to stone

That you preferred to walk alone

But I knew the truth (I knew the truth) {guitars begin

to distort slightly}

You stopped loving the world outside

Let the rivers run cold and dry

But you never stopped loving me

No, you never stopped loving me

{full

exploding rock chorus} Friends departed,

the letters ceased

You made your pact with a quiet peace

Cold to the faces you used to know But you held my

hand in the snow

{rhythm section drops

back to

moderate drive} You stopped loving the world outside

Let the rivers run cold and dry

But you never stopped loving me

No, you never stopped loving me

{high energy

chorus reprise}

Never stopped

(never stopped) No, you never stopped {guitars slowly fade into feedback} {drum

beat slows down}