The cruelest year Stole lives too young And many more still In the balance hung We couldn't breathe Try as we might Fragile as feedback Hopeless as the night [But the course has runThe damage doneThe slate wiped clean again] The cruelest year Tore lives apart Its greedy fingers Rending blameless hearts This empty space Where once loved dwelled Razed to foundations Left an empty shell [But the course has runThe damage doneThe slate wiped clean again] The cruelest year Left us behind The mangled wreckage Of our lives entwined We bore the scars Mistakes we made The walking wounded In a grim parade [But the course has runThe damage doneThe slate wiped clean again]