Your Pain Is Mine

Screams from the embers of the 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

Every god says farewell to their sons

When the bombs come, run

Isolation in a swarm of bullets

Another infant chokes on the halos of smoke

I never saw the truth but now I know it

Consume our sanity

We've torn apart society

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