The Promise

[Verse 1] Surrender to a ceaseless path Portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads on nameless walls Submit to the scourge pit Carving the lines across an age'ed face, giving misery its place [Pre-Chorus] Ragged men in ragged clothes Silver thorn and bloody rose Pride that has come to define The martyrdom spoiling our minds [Chorus] My triumph's a desert, barren and tame Who was the promise for? Laborious tasks that are futile and vain Who was the promise for? Meaningless bonds that succumb to the years But who was the promise for? Now we're washing the sand with our salty tears Who was the promise for? [Verse 2] Forsake the ceaseless path Escape a hollow shrine of crumbling halls Layers of mold on toppled walls Emerge from the scourge pit Carving the lines across an age'ed face, giving misery its place [Pre-Chorus] We're still ragged men in ragged clothes Broken face and bloody nose Arrogance comes to define The shrillness entwined in our whine [Chorus] Exhausting a thought for a lifetime of pain Who was the promise for? An animate corpse that is toiling in vain Who was the promise for? A silence so loud that it rings in our ears (Who was the promise for?) Now we're washing the sand with our ghostly tears Who was the promise for? [Bridge] Blind leading blind Never feel the laughter Search through time Nothing reveals the answer Blind leading blind Never feel the laughter Search through time Nothing reveals the answer [Outro] Unmoored Adrift in a nebulous void Unmoored Sink in a depthless void