A Long Way Back

In the years before the madness and the fears The bitter tears would flow like rivers Raging harder Drown the spirit and the rhyme Beneath the waves to ebb in time Beyond the tempest of the martyr Curse the dark and damn rain Cut through the bars cast off the chains And run the demons from their shadows In the mirror are the lies Beside the ghost the paralyzes The will and chills the marrow We are lost the captain said Then laid his hands upon the dead And set adrift the broken hearted Down the long and winding stair Through darkened halls still unaware The labyrinth keeps them where they started It's a long way back Hang me from the tree of the sorrow It's a long way back Set the sail and rise upon the morrow