I am but shadow that rests on a home
I've heard pleading objections to my heart of stone
I once knew of love of light and of hope
That found the place where all good things go
To die!
For every burden there is someone to bear it.
Behind the greater good the sins we commit
Your fragile worlds need a source of blame to ascribe
But there are evils that cant be described
When all of this blinding lack of faith arises we're intertwined
Your life weighed against that of mankind
To call it a hard choice would be a lie!
The death of innocence is but necessity
If you abhor the thought you're welcome to your fantasy
If those beside you bear witness to the darkness of life
Then for the greater good stand beside them when called to die
Under imperium we're all his children
Who wouldn't gladly die for the sake of their kin
It takes a pure soul to cling tight to faith as they die
But to kill for him is something only the strong abide
And that's no thing a child should have to be put through
I cross the line for your sake so you don't have to
But if that child shall ever even think to stray from the path
They'll know no mercy they'll be purged with unhesitant wrath!
All the ends we prevent yet somehow we are the ones you vilify
If you'd seen what I'd seen you'd be devastated you'd be terrified
So hope for redemption gifted here by the hands of a better man
Know that my blood stained palms
Will only ever care for a greater plan
And if that's what it takes then no cost is too great.