Traveler in time - Fates Warning

Old man time, Wisdom and Rhyme

Seeker of reason, reaper of time

Born to a spell he walks the beaten path

To hell, rusty shackles of time burden his mind

Once on his side time turns to defy

In a flash of the lightning he’s come and gone

The clock strikes the hours, he climbs to the belfry

As he’s done a thousand hours before

Many dark years, not a vacant hour through

War and fear had the bell been ever strayed

Hypnotized rhythmic pendulum synchronized

With the beat of the old man’s heart

Man or machine he’s living a dream

Forever the clock lives so does he

Faces below fade with seasons of long ago

Forever awake in his brass bed

Who holds the key

It’s all a matter of time, is there reason

Or Rhyme — is there?

Traveler in time another left

Behind — you are

Tangled in the web of time you’ve

Swallowed the pill of illusion

Writings so clear on the wall you

Waste in seclusion

Mirror reflects the mark of the crowfoot

In his eyes now he realize

Nearing his hour he climbs to the belfry

As he’s done a thousand hours before

Moon of blue is in the sky

West wind he whispers why

Sacrifice living for life his perpetual vice

Lonely win blows through his empty soul

He cries a river of tears on the clock below

Nothings forever and time will tell

His tears rust the clock and he died as well