[Instrumental]

As time goes by
Lifetime of lies
Standing strong
In a never-ending war

Fighting the ghosts
That haunt inside
Whispers in the night
Fires in the sky
Burn the tree of life

Wherever
My path may lead
Among the clouds
My spirit will be free

Trying to hold on
Like a sole tree in the wind
Feeling the loneliness
Still I won't give up

Forest of stone
Blood on its leaves
To walk the land alone
(Walk the land alone)

Following
Footprints of shadow
My roots emerge

Trying to hold on
Like a sole tree in the wind
Feeling the loneliness
Still I won't give up

Through ice and stone
A dream made of smoke

(Trying to hold on)
(Like a sole tree in the wind)
(Felling the loneliness)

(Through ice and stone)
(A dream made of smoke)

Through silence, still marching
Falling winter cold
Surrender to sadness
Still I fought on
Still I fought on

Finding guilt in heart
A great burden
Watch the withering moon
On its final days
Yeah

What will now be
After false salvation?
Soothing warmth
Now gone forever
With a bird's farewell song
All will be lost

The blazing sun will never rise
For those about to fall
All those blamed but not condemned
Shall bring the end of all

Vultures prey on the dead
Whispers of terror ravaged the Earth

Hearts too weak and old
Knees touch charcoaled soil
Beseech for a savior
Savoring their own misery

Intense winds steering towards
Forgotten places and times
When the lands fertile and strong
Watched by cloudless skies

When the lands fertile and strong
Watched by cloudless skies

Intense winds steering towards
Forgotten places and times
When the lands fertile and strong
Watched by cloudless skies

When the lands fertile and strong
Watched by cloudless skies

We raise our hands
And pledge to the divine
When worlds collide
We perceive the demise
We raise our hands
And pledge to the divine
The end has come
And we shall not survive

I can't find
In my heart
What is true
And what is real
Greed is having everything in life
(Everything in life)
And still wanting more
(Still wanting more)
A constant sadness
In misery's embrace
Vacant feelings linked
To possession

Forced by the melodies of our time
Dancing the first and final waltz

On a swamp with marshy waters
Sinking ever deeper
All seem meaningless
In the eternal flow of time
Lies hatred and despair
A tragedy
To befall all those who look
Down to the ground

Oh

Your purpose in this life
Shall not reveal itself
Unless you fight
Neglected hopes abandoned
In the desert of your mind
Shadows of a coming storm
Eternal destiny through shadowed
Tarnished lands

Memories of old bring joy
And peace of mind
Of a mountaintop under a fading sun
Last ray of light brings hope to my heart
But the first cold winter breeze
Of another endless night

Shatters my dreams
Alone once again
A pale moon's child
Roaming this Earth
With million wicked souls
Yeah

Oh

Your purpose in this life
Shall not reveal itself
Unless you fight
Neglected hopes abandoned
In the desert of your mind
Shadows of a coming storm
Eternal destiny through shadowed
Tarnished lands
(Through shadowed, tarnished lands)

Still watch them to create
And to destroy
Meaningless deeds
In the passing of eternity
Cursed to be forgotten
By the melodies of our time

In the brink
Of calamity
Dreary voices calling
From their tombs
Woeful cries
Of weeping doom
Laments for old
And unaccomplished deeds
Bleak
In their aggrieved existence

The gods do not recall
The names of the lost
This baleful truth still aches
Sorrowful in sight
The lost in peril
They resound the same words
A desperate strain
Sorrowful in sight

The gods do not recall
The names of the lost
This baleful truth still aches
Sorrowful in sight
The lost in peril
They resound the same words
A desperate strain
Sorrowful in sight

Questions of a dark past
Must never be answered
If one still treads
A hazardous path
The voices of the deceased
Forever reach the living
Quiet sounds preserved
In the storm inside

A monument raised
To the forsaken souls
Forsaken in its reign