Hope lies torn
ripped to pieces by forces unknown
sat lower than hell, held by the weight
of a world blackened and burnt

Once born a free man,
no shackles and the world awaiting
but all to soon, sunken beneath waves
and you see his face, every single day
pained and afraid of you
afraid of everyone

Dreams are unaffordable, everything unattainable
There’s no explanation, no easy way out
And still he’s ridiculed and spat upon

He’s nothing more, or less
Than you or I,
Your friend or mine
Til death
She’s everything we’re not
And all we could ever be
They broke our hearts
and now we’re wrecked

Who is this before me,
But a figure in black
A single lantern lighting the way
Through shrouded mists in time
We may see the answer.
Until then let me just say I know

A skeleton crew, aboard his ship
A once proud captain sets sail
His vessel rotting around him
Still he helms the craft as of old

With a blood red tide,
He cuts a lonely figure on the wave
Warrior, prince, lover, killer
He knows the final voyage
He has no need of charts
The course set to the west
All around sea mirrors sky
And a strange kind of twilight
Spreads it’s inky fingers across the ship
The gentle creak of wood and
a tiny splash of waves are the only sounds
As the captain steers with a wizened hand
Darkness descends and with a last glimpse to shore
He see the single lantern glowing in his lover’s hand
Comforted by her presence he knows no fear
As the ship slips slowly beneath the waves