---

The time I spend reflecting

Always growing, never-ending

Brings home the truth through an age of decay

Showing me my form so frail

Understanding life's betrayal

Finding the answers on my final day

And now I see the truth

I face the altar screaming

Am I a hero born by secrets that I hold?

Did they enslave me when I came into the cold?

Always asking when I suffer do they see?

The flashback now reveals the stranger who waited was me

Inside the tomb of ages

Shadows writhe while battle rages

Darkness can show me the way we will go

Lie beside the embers burning

Flames alive, their faces turning

Scarring the earth and the ashes below

Nothing can save me now

This light is slowly fading

Am I a hero born by secrets that I hold?

Did they enslave me when I came into the cold?

Always asking when I suffer do they see?

The flashback now reveals the stranger who waited was me

Nothing ventured, nothing gained and I'm ashamed

You spent your life wasting away they said

And in the twilight I am standing in the rain

The flashback showing me, the traitor who waited in vain

All hope is fading now

There's nothing left worth saving

Am I a hero born by secrets that I hold?

Did they enslave me when I came into the cold?

Always asking when I suffer do they see?

The flashback now reveals the stranger who waited was me

Nothing ventured, nothing gained and I'm ashamed

You spent your life wasting away they said

And in the twilight I am standing on the way

The flashback showing me, lost in an age of decay