Night is nearing its closure The earth is yearning for the light But the skies have frozen over The sun of my heart cannot pierce the dark To catch the whisper of the heavens The black mountain pass must be sought Where the beast of seelusion awaits We won't endure the cold and neither will the dawn The bitter despair of their starving eyes Has paved the road that I fear In the greenest grove Their savoir will never appear Nothing I've learned holds its meaning When the soul id cast out of its home And the scars of my strength never deeping The stars turn their heads from the tears I have shed The key had always been my treasure While the lock was the greater prize The forest looks straight through the lies I've kept inside Open your eyes and feel no hate Towards the darkness you hold It will not be your fate The sun may be far away from your crasp But its flames will remain Illusions of light never last An oath I will make to the depths of my core To die for those who cannot fight this war To shatter the ice destroying our land I'll return the gold in hand or I'll not return at all Embrace the shadow For its path you must follow I close my eyes and I feel such hate Will the darkness I hold become my fate? The sun is so far away from my grasp Will its flames still remain, when illusions of light fade so fast? Will the dawn show its face? Or will its life I'll forever chase? The darkest path Converge where the light will meet the ground I hear no sound And see no sign of fortune's hidden rhyme How strange it seems the at the edge of life I could find my way Cause for today, the road of frozon starlight I've begun How stands the glass around? For shame you take no care, my boys How stands the glass around? Let wine and mirth abound The trumpet sounds The colors they do fly, my boys To fight, kill or wound As you would be found Connected with hard fare, my boys On the cold ground Why, soldiers, why? Must we be melancholy boys Why, soldiers, why? Whose business is to die What sighing? Fye! Drink on. drown fear, be jolly, boys Tis he, you or I Wet, hot, cold or dry We're always bound to follow, boys And scorn to fly Tis but vain I mean not to upbraid you boys Tis but vain For a soldier to complain Should next campaign Send us to him that made us boys We're free from pain But should we remain A bottle and kind landlady Cures all again