"I'm here now, by your side"
Sheltered from the cold
a soldier guards a boy
Clocks are cutting as times pass by their pain
(bringing release through the book on his knees)
(keep trying, keep trying, keep dying inside)
"Hush now little child, it's time to say goodnight
Find rest in my lullaby this night
I'll still be here when the nightmists draw near"
(blind figures controlling his life)
(keep falling, keep falling, keep falling down now)
"Have faith my son
reach for my hand and I'll walk with you
till the sun goes down
Follow me now
we will meet again in your land
(have faith my son)
Now I'll lead you home."
Opening stillness
reaching through illness
They walk in nightmist
"Now, we meet again.
I'm so close to you now"
(Again we laugh)
Where shallow waters reach
for unknown mystic shores
they gaze at the horizon and smile
"Behold my son
reach for the vision that fills your mind
just let go and run
Follow the path that was meant for you
long ago
(behold my son)
And cross the plains of dawn"
Wordless questions
tearful confessions
They meet at last now
when it is time to go separate ways
(fading pages)
They have touched through ages
"Remember me my son
it's time to say... goodbye.
I'll free you from your prison
now go
You're free now
the wave meets the shore"
(keep running, keep running, keep running home kid)
"Farewell my son
the tubes that were straining you
to a death within life are gone
Wait for us
I and your mother will
cherish you my son
I cry as I'm watching you run
across
plains of dawn"
and so through that evening
a soldier is leaving his son
once again
and a war has been lost
Forlorn he is reeling
unmendably kneeling
But fate leaves no choice now:
he must close the book!
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