The Shadowed Road

If I could choose my way
 I'd never leave this place
 This forest dreams in greens and golds
 I'll never see again
 But I hear the quiet call
 A portent drifting dark and cold
 For the road ahead is shadowed
 And there ruin waits untold
 But I will not turn away
 I roam this bloodstained road
 Through the mountain paths to the gates of bone
 I swear by the grey boundless sea
 One day I will return
 But my home is corrupted
 and all gods to fall
 The forest will burn
 So I'll leave on the path I must take
 Crushing fate, I'll never forget
 That hope is as dim as ghosts
 In the dens of their hosts
 I'll hold to it
 Beneath this crumbling world I saw
 A truth as dark as a thousand unseen winters
 Our doom was written in our souls
 But I will claim it as my own
 I once dreamed of a place
 Where all things of old stories dwell
 I longed for it, now I see
 That where there walk dreams
 Nightmares linger as well
 This is my road, through wandering shades
 For the promise I made
 Through hidden vales
 All the shapes that haunt us
 I will contend
 The road has burned my world away
 Did I think to come this far unchanged?
 But I feel a sense of clarity
 I've never known before
 That with death so close behind me
 I can see the bitter dawn
 Into the plains of ash
 I'll leave the world that was behind
 Though I walk into the dark
 I walk at last with open eyes
 Behold my empire
 The ruinscape
 The broken bonds that held us
 I wonder how I came this far
 Through terrors dread
 The road won't destroy me
 I'll follow where it leads
 The truth is ever near
 Look into the dark
 If you will look into the dark
 Ever will I walk upon this shadowed road
 This ravaged path where phantoms roam
 For if all things must end
 I'd walk among the ashes of the dawning shadowed world