A cruel and relentless fate Is handed down to me The wolves are closing in And a rope hangs from the tree A glance of loneliness Is a very solemn gift I bare a punishing weight As my soul becomes adrift Staring through this ancient light My heart resting in my hands I see now what is coming Astonished at what I see They are becoming my enemy The temples now in ruin It is mankind that is losing Destruction comes from within Now we're all suffering Anger will punish itself A painful price to pay Can love survive a growing distance Or simply fade away? The Earth that waits to receive us Is calm amid a terrible storm And the gates we hope will receive us Watch our souls completely reform Is it a sacred cargo I bare? Or a curse from the unholy witch king Falling through the atmosphere My faith is failing me now In the company of fear I will survive this, somehow An ox pulls away my mothers ghost Through a pathless wood All the shattered fragments I hold together In a motion of faith The torn fields of my homeland Lay cold and still