Once We Were Kings - Hollenthon

Fire… I hold the mythic flame within my palm

Fire… Wildly dancing in the still of night

This dream that fades before it soars

A frozen lake of blood and guilt

Abandon hope, who enter here

My love has died so long ago

Cowards… You preached from temples made of flesh and bone

Envy… She was the poison torturing your souls

Gorging… Devouring killer gnawing at our scars

Fury… A beast in bondage rotting in the ground

And my heart and my soul flee with the flames

Once we were kings

Before your throne

We tasted death

For promised stars in skies we longed

Yet stars don’t shine, where darkness reigns

May fiery hope deliver us

And my heart and my soul flee with the flames

Once we were kings

And the wind gently sings

Of the lives we have lost

But once we were kings

And as the fire sears our weary flesh

The seven rays have lost their hold

The slaves of yore rise with the smoke

This reign shall fall and rise no more

Your wrath remains, your pleasure wretched

A wayward child lost in the storm

Forgotten feats return to haunt your doom

I will not be the last to go

And my heart and my soul flee with the flames

Once we were kings

And the wind gently sings

Of the lives we have lost

But once we were kings…