Ebbing End - Silent Farewell lyrics

He lies upon the ground

In crumpled disarray

I straighten his legs

That he might walk

His arms, untwisting

That he would wave

The dirt from his brow

That he could see

Closely, quietly knelt

But not a breath to hear

Nor a blink of the eyes

Just staring at the sky

Such a small hole

But from it flowed life

An exit wound where

His soul, it escaped

So small a projectile

So great its devastation

How can hatred and steel

Cheat a man so swiftly of years

Men affirm their lives

By taking those of others

This separation of the mundane

A share of the fragility of existance

A side of men reckoned

It shall swim in intoxication

There is a price to be paid

For the concilation of this guilt

In youth's ignorance it sleeps

To awaken in maturing silent days

When friends and family found

Are recognized in solitude

The sins and sorrows of youth

Are visited on the seasoned soul

Youth are bound by intense emotion

The venerable haunted by foolish reason

Suffering is a facet of living

But living doesn't certify suffering

Only the tides ebbing flow

That stills amid spring and neap

Where sanguinous pulsing ends

And incorruption overtakes us all