A Hero's Wounds lyrics

Everyday is a world of pain

Begotten by others without regard

Whose existence though meager

Was more pathetic than my own

So now in lifelong injuries

Bearing the scars seen and not

While many of them succumbed

To their self-wrought misfortunes

It was a mistake of fate

Though truly puzzling to me

That such an unearned plague

Has taken its hapless toll

There is no rhyme nor reason

But that of self before all others

Now others bear their offenses

That outlive their pathetic days

What reward is there for the brave

But to see the sun come up

To breathe each day with purpose

For those who really had none