EchoOfTime - The Weight Of Silence

Описание: LYRICS

Dust settles on a broken street
Where the echoes of the children used to play
Now the rhythm is a steady beat
Of boots and shadows turning gold to gray
They draw the lines upon a weathered map
In rooms where velvet curtains hide the sun
But every border is a hidden trap
For the ones who have nowhere left to run.

Oh, the heaven that they promise is a hell we have to fly
While they argue over altars in the sky
Between the scriptures and the schemes of greedy men
The innocent are broken time and again
The flags are flying high, but the ground is sinking low
And the seeds of bitter anger are the only things they sow.

A mother’s prayer, a soldier’s dying breath
Two different languages, the same cold sting of death
One side claims a mandate from a holy throne
The other fights for power they can never own
But the hunger in a young boy’s hollow eyes
Doesn't care for slogans or the "righteous" lies
It doesn't matter who is "wrong" or "right"
When you’re shivering alone in the middle of the night.

Oh, the heaven that they promise is a hell we have to fly
While they argue over altars in the sky
Between the scriptures and the schemes of greedy men
The innocent are broken time and again
The flags are flying high, but the ground is sinking low
And the seeds of bitter anger are the only things they sow.

They say it’s for the glory
They say it’s for the creed
But it’s just the same old story
Of vanity and greed
While the leaders sleep in safety
And the poets lose their tongues
The air is filled with ashes
In a million pairs of lungs.

The bells are ringing... but no one’s left to hear
The smoke is clearing... but the sky is never clear
Just a cross, a crescent, and a crown
As the walls of mercy all come tumbling down
Tumbling down...

Who wins the world if the world is burned to bone?
Just a king sitting on a graveyard throne.