Watership Down

“…To fallen comrades, all i have to offer is this
 word of insignificance, y’all really been missed
 some soldiers never enlist, but find themselves
 engaged in conflict where it’s life’s stakes, regardless
 aint nothin’ promised from the minute we started
 still it’s hard feelin’ you wasn’t robbed of any part
 every bar penned in your memory’s honor, my intercession
 i struggle to keep the faith, i’m bereft of possession
 what’s left then, of this pathetic relic i stepped in?
 the cut through the core may have severed my last connection (3)
 i’m expectin’ a sign of acceptance, tethered to the axiom (4)
 inadequate reception, i reckon it’s from the valium
 a stepson of the pallium challenge and test one
 nebulous response said ‘it’s better not to question’
 in rejection of your slant, i’m demanding an explanation
 where’s the justice or the justification in takin’ nathan?
 brother you listenin’? send the exposition
 i’m sick of pretending there’s any intent to my existence
 i’mma lie beneath the woodbine, lookin’ for a sign
 if you could find [one] - right about now’d be a good time
 CHORUS: i had a dream this morning
 that the rain came pourin’ better vacate the warren, and i…
 i’ve never seen such mournin’
 in the wake of a storm better wake up the warden, and i…
 beg you to heed this warnin’
 for the sake of the pure and i’mma wait here for ‘em
 we gotta leave these quarters
 and escape what’s in store, either face fate or break, y’all
 a straggling of peers in the academy
 are lookin’ at me like ‘you said to move, start travelling’
 a captain with no navigating skills in the galley
 fightin’ to flee the feral at the peril of the menagerie
 within the waves [i] start waverin’
 where’s this revelation when the frame comes cavin’ in?
 grave thoughts - where they ’bout to put mine? if you
 overlook a crime, right about now’d be a good time…
 it’s a long reach into vast space
 lately i been slashed, maybe you could meet me halfway
 days passed since i got the cache tatted
 i’m a fast player with the match and paper in the ashtray
 told when i asked that the pathway is wide, though
 accommodatin’ all cats attracted to the fire’s glow
 tough as it was i let my pride go - something said to
 trust, but it’s nothing left inside to revive, over
 thin books of laws we found cause for discord
 and distort every bit of wisdom it gives forth
 quick to stir it up and settle shit with a fist, lord
 they’d be afraid of death if they had something to live for
 the orb in the distance shone for the lone canoness
 grantin’ ‘em amnesty for tamperin’ with the manifest
 my mannerism a prism and should shine, light it if you would
 be so kind, right now’d be a good time
 CHORUS
 i’m tryin’ not to feel responsible
 for complicating things in relation to the chronicle
 you’re free to walk away, for you to stay seems improbable
 if i led you astray i pray to suffer the unconscionable
 but if [there's] truth therein, drop the
 anchor deep and save me, thankfully your bravery
 withstood mine, shook in the waves, but it looks fine
 give praise - right about now’d be a good time.”