See, power is a drug, much like any other
With its use, I dug the graves of my brothers
'Cause with my walls all stripped away
Never to be seen again
One thing's left to get me through the pain
Boom, boom, boom, boom
I've stared at this trigger so many times
And carved into the walls around me are the lines
Of a song I half remember from a time long passed
Of family and friendship that was meant to last
But it wasn't meant to be
'Cause I was torn from my family
And friends turned their backs to me
And though I tried to build a home
I couldn't help but feel alone
The tyrant I had thought my friend
Conspired to bring about my end
And when your oldest friend turns to foe
How do you know who's putting on a show?
See, how many parts of a ship must you replace
Before she loses any trace of her first face?
And how much of a nation must be exchanged
Before she loses all the hopes that she contained?
My unfinished symphony
'Cause everybody's trying to play their own parts
In a song that spans a million different people's hearts
Betrayal and redemption
Pain in every dimension
A tale for all the ages
But one thing keeps getting lost in this labyrinth of pages
That this land was mine
A place we could go to emancipate the tyranny of our rulers
Has met its terrible fate in villainy and looters
This bastion of pacifism
Stood stalwart against their aggression but
When conflict came from within
Her bricks lay down in the slightest wind
And now the king lays struck asunder from his rainbow throne
And a man in a mask has struck a deal to destroy this home
This monument to democracy
This nation of slaughter
This land that once was ours turned to treachery and torture
This place isn't mine
So what is a man to do when all that he has built
Is twisted and perverted into naught but filth?
But wipe away the canvas so that they may start again
Without the man that led them all to their untimely end
A land without me
With its use, I dug the graves of my brothers
'Cause with my walls all stripped away
Never to be seen again
One thing's left to get me through the pain
Boom, boom, boom, boom
I've stared at this trigger so many times
And carved into the walls around me are the lines
Of a song I half remember from a time long passed
Of family and friendship that was meant to last
But it wasn't meant to be
'Cause I was torn from my family
And friends turned their backs to me
And though I tried to build a home
I couldn't help but feel alone
The tyrant I had thought my friend
Conspired to bring about my end
And when your oldest friend turns to foe
How do you know who's putting on a show?
See, how many parts of a ship must you replace
Before she loses any trace of her first face?
And how much of a nation must be exchanged
Before she loses all the hopes that she contained?
My unfinished symphony
'Cause everybody's trying to play their own parts
In a song that spans a million different people's hearts
Betrayal and redemption
Pain in every dimension
A tale for all the ages
But one thing keeps getting lost in this labyrinth of pages
That this land was mine
A place we could go to emancipate the tyranny of our rulers
Has met its terrible fate in villainy and looters
This bastion of pacifism
Stood stalwart against their aggression but
When conflict came from within
Her bricks lay down in the slightest wind
And now the king lays struck asunder from his rainbow throne
And a man in a mask has struck a deal to destroy this home
This monument to democracy
This nation of slaughter
This land that once was ours turned to treachery and torture
This place isn't mine
So what is a man to do when all that he has built
Is twisted and perverted into naught but filth?
But wipe away the canvas so that they may start again
Without the man that led them all to their untimely end
A land without me
( ChaosNCabbages )
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