Forlorn Sky

Lyrics

To the promised land Marching along to meet the light ahead With the people's cheers bright in the air And hopes and wishes spread We embarked onto a journey of fate For all the people we knew To wherever we believed we were to go So we proved our strength, filling our hearts With courage bottled and stored And we bravely fought, not for ourselves But the oaths that we had sworn Yet for reasons that in spite of it all We couldn't understand Tore the answer that we sought out of our hands As the tears dry And heather, ensanguined, still smolders Only birds of prey Know the tale of this battlefield This forlorn sky Unbearable weight on my shoulders (This forlorn sky, clouded) As you fly away Unseen, unburdened Like smoke tossed to the wind (You fly away into the wind) We pushed on and on into the fog Believing there was a way Yet the promises we couldn't keep Grew bigger every day And the truth of all the limits we held (Despair, let down, angered) Invited everyone's scorn As the earth beneath us crumbled, withered and torn (Worthless to all) The remembrance So quiet and empty and broken (Remembered you, fleeting) All my memories Slipping out through my fingers (Your face and voice, with hatred) And the feelings Left vacant and always unspoken (We tried, we strove, always) And we wondered then What meaning all of this burden was for (What did we ever fight for?) In my hometown The wind only ever gets colder Of the places there —we must go to that place again As the tears dry And heather, ensanguined, still smolders (The tears are always falling) Only birds of prey Know the tale of this battlefield (The birds of prey are feeding) This forlorn sky Unbearable weight on my shoulders (This forlorn sky, clouded) As you fly away Unseen, unburdened Like smoke tossed to the wind (You fly away into the wind)