And so Opens the Earth (Ash Memory Part I)

After years of hiding in the dark
 A sound is heard and the shadow is pulled apart
 Just a whisper, just a fading song
 A prey to capture before its voice is gone
 I've scorched this land with the blood of my past
 So nothing left breathing is ever able to last
 I will drop all the riches I hold
 To seek the candle that lights in the winter's cold
 From the woods you crawled a life ago
 Here you swore you'd stay
 The mountain pass is marked with the very same stone
 But the leaves have fallen, the trail is overgrown
 I will forge ahead with the strength that I steal
 From a false remembrance, from a time that wasn't real
 Look back home before you go
 It will soon be lost
 And only when the last memory has burned
 Will I believe a lesson has been learned
 In the ashes I'll trace a map to guide me far
 Not knowing that life still flows
 Its soul becomes a scar
 And if we stand
 Choice laughs in our face
 So we will go
 And trust that something's changed
 So the last wound mends
 So the earth opens