...The Man I Could have Been

from In Memory of Me by Betray The Emissary

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I was there when the sky breathed contempt
Blood-stained clouds spat on black cloth
And the air smelled like stifled ash

Silhouettes, veneered by the struggling moonlight
Danced at one another, angered by dying passion
Tears washed lips that hissed bitter good-byes
Leaving the salt to burn the cracks

I tried to tell him to run, tried to save him from his end
But my words, the echoed whispers amongst the cries, found no ears
And her tides swept his sacrificial shores out
And drowned them clean of pious charity

I used to dwell in the depths of carnage
And without his grace, i flourished in darkness

So I called the rain here today...
The last eulogy to the ghosts I've hidden away
A person, the boy, that man I could have been.
But I'll fight to believe there's a possibility
To live eternally, as an idea, as an ideal, in a memory
So live in obscurity, while I wait...
I'm just waiting to be remembered.
Remember...

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from In Memory of Me, released March 28, 2008

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