Trail to Redemption

Divine was this soul Fine and bold Before it was pelt with the stones By our own men Breathless and cold Never delivers On the day of the damned The stones were so different Now that time has passed us by Are heroes forgiven? Hope means nothing in this embarrassment Once again I hear the quiet, mystical call Humbly, thankfully and alone I wander there again Against the wind for the last time I kneel, confess my defeat And ask for peace to my soul To cry all alone Day and night Enslaved to carve the tombstone By your own hands Ashamed and defiled The void is endless No place to abscond This world is so different The thought of time passing by And heroes forgotten Now all there's left is this emptiness Once again I hear the quiet, mystical call Humbly, thankfully and alone I wander there again Against the wind for the last time I kneel, confess my defeat And ask for peace to my soul Betrayed, left alone Disgraced, rusted throne They're mauling the abandoned idol Tearing apart that what is left The hollow shell of once-was-fighter Fulfill their hunger for his flesh But from the remnants beaten hero rises Spreads his wings to block the setting sun As a new day dawns and all is quiet The pardoned one is already gone And for the last time I kneel