The song existed since the recording of Silent So Long. The lyrics to this song were shown in the Webisode 4 at 03:09.
The solo was played by Steve Binetti.
In a track-by-track interview with Kerrang!, Richard said the following about the song:[1]
It’s always a hard thing in life when you decide you have to move on and leave someone behind. I’ve realised from experience that when you do that, it really hurts and you go through a lot of pain. But after some years, you look back and know exactly why you had to do that or life decide to split up a certain situation and you lost something. That’s what the song is all about – things going away, but in the end, for the greater good… because it just has to be like that.
If I could see the end
I'd've taken better aim
And get you in my sight
And blow away your name
Find a way
To overmedicate
I drive so far away
It all goes up in flames
(I try to get high)
I try to get high when I
See no other way
To let the light in fighting
Through another day
If I could only
Drain you from my veins
Wash away what once was
It all goes up in flames
Your eyes they fade away
Fade away from me
When I look deep inside
Feel nothing till it feels right
Your eyes they fade away
And I don't wanna see
There's nothing left alive
I'm burning on the inside
And still I take it with me
Everywhere I go
Followed by memories
I wish I didn't know
I'm dividing
Turning into stone
Another shadow
And I go up in flames
Your eyes they fade away
Fade away from me
When I look deep inside
Feel nothing till it feels right
Your eyes they fade away
And I don't wanna see
There's nothing left alive
I'm burning on the inside
Your eyes they fade away
Fade away from me
When I look deep inside
Feel nothing till it feels right
Your eyes they fade away
And I don't wanna see
There's nothing left alive
I'm burning on the inside
Your eyes they fade away
Fade away from me
There's nothing left alive
I'm burning on the inside
(Burning on the inside)
Unfinished version (as seen in the Webisode video)
Find a way to (Another day I)
Drive (Go) so far away while (as) it
All goes up in flames
I try to get (to stay) high
I try to get high when I
See no other way
To let the light in fightning
Through another day
If I could only
Drain you from my veins / Take (Kill) away the pain / Wash away the stain
Wash away what once was
(And) I could get away / Get another face / Put something in place
And still I take it with me
Everywhere I go
Followed by memories
I (We) wish I (we) didn't know / I wish I'd never know / That take me down below
Diamond knives that / Another knife that
Cut(s) straight to the bone / Cut right through (to) the bone
Another shadow
Won't (it won't) drag me down below / I can't let it drag me down below