Your Pain Is Mine

Screams from the embers of fire
 A fading light of a lost empire
 Collapsed in timeless haze
 Lanterns below the caves
 Shine no light for the shadow man
 The path to amnesty
 Littered in unmarked graves
 The innocent swallowed in sand
 The hand that grasps for life
 Severed clean by the knife
 With every cut so deep
 How sound the sheltered sleep
 Deaf ears to the ring of the siren's call
 I hear they sing in heaven
 We'll never hear the song
 Your pain is mine
 I am you in another life
 Your pain is mine
 We were one long ago
 Before the earth stole our souls
 Your pain is mine
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 Every god says farewell to their sons
 When the bombs come, run
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 Isolation in a swarm of bullets
 Another infant chokes on the halos of smoke
 I never saw the truth but now I know it
 Consumes our sanity
 We've torn apart society
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 The hand that grasps for life
 Severed clean by the knife
 With every cut so deep
 How sound the sheltered sleep
 Deaf ears to the ring of the siren's call
 I hear they sing in heaven
 We'll never hear the song
 Your pain is mine
 I am you in another life
 Your pain is mine
 We were one long ago
 Before the earth stole our souls
 Painted pictures always seem serene
 But the reality is much harsher to see
 And I need you to know that help is out of my reach
 Or at least believe me
 I wished that you'd find peace
 But there's no action in a thought, simply lost at sea
 Of undeniable complacency and treachery
 And I plead that you were given just a chance to be free
 Maybe in time, but know I tried
 Your pain is mine
 Run like your life depends on it
 Because one day it will
 
 I'm sorry child
 The world wasn't there to pick up the pieces
 It never will