Echoes - Pt. 2 - Crippled Black Phoenix

Cloudless every day you fall

Upon my waking eyes

Inviting and inciting me to rise

And through the window in the wall

Come streaming in on sunlight wings

A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies

And no one makes me close my eyes

So I throw the windows wide

And call to you across the sky

You shout in your sleep

Perhaps the price is just too steep

Is your conscience at rest

If once put to the test?

You awake with a start

To just the beating of your heart

Just one man beneath the sky

Just two ears, just two eyes

You set sail across the sea

Of long past thoughts and memories

Childhood’s end, your fantasies

Merge with harsh realities

And then as the sail is hoist

You find your eyes are growing moist

All the fears never voiced

Say you have to make your final choice

Who are you and who am I

To say we know the reason why?

Some are born;

some men die

Beneath one infinite sky

There’ll be war, there’ll be peace

But everything one day will cease

All the iron turned to rust;

All the proud men turned to dust

And so all things, time will mend

So this song will end