All Hallow's Evil - The Frailty Of Vanity lyrics

He saw the light upon his face To the simple eye vanity is something to abhor Yet to the beholder No gift could mean any more Beauty should be cherished more than any useless virtue for the beautiful are forgiven More so than any of you Yet beauty is rather useless I won't be judged by the contents of my soul for the concept has grown quite old I never cared for the respect afforded to me I always preferred the envy I'd give my soul to hold on to my youth and I'll the people I've yet to use I'll go unpunished until I'm dead or so he thought until he said "Every deed fell upon my face Yet for all these years they left no trace I'd pray my wrongs could be undone If I had known what I'd become" He saw the light and damned it's gaze Beauty fades while the body decays but beauty stays while the soul is astray This is a gift to those with vanity but what justice could that really be? Beauty is only skin deep so why is it the only standard we keep It has no practical use yet a million forms of blatant abuse Because of the lives you've cast aside you wear that face as a disguise Beauty makes it easy to hide the ugliness inside Every deed fell upon my face Yet for all these years they left no trace I'd pray my wrongs could be undone If I had known what I'd become Now he couldn't take the pain this beauty was not the same it had forsaken him after all when his face splattered on the wall