Steel in hand, I walk alone Through the ashes of my home Black wings circle overhead Counting all my fallen dead Empty halls where laughter rang Now only echoes of the clang Of swords that took everything Left me here with broken wings The crow, it follows everywhere A shadow born of my despair In its eyes I see the flame Of all the ones who knew my name Fly away, dark messenger of sorrow There's no light left in tomorrow Black as night, you mirror what I've become A warrior with nowhere left to run Crow's shadow on my soul Darkness fills the empty hole Where my heart used to beat Now there's only this defeat Scars like maps upon my skin Tell the tales of battles grim Every line a memory lost Victory at too great a cost Brothers fallen, love torn away Crown and kingdom turned to gray Only this blade remembers when I was whole, I was a man The crow, it caws my failure loud My only witness, death's black shroud In its call I hear their screams The end of all my shattered dreams Fly away, dark messenger of sorrow There's no light left in tomorrow Black as night, you mirror what I've become A warrior with nowhere left to run Crow's shadow on my soul Darkness fills the empty hole Where my heart used to beat Now there's only this defeat I fought for honor, I fought for glory Now I'm just a tragic story The crow and I, we're both the same Survivors bearing all the shame Of living when the good ones died Of carrying this grief inside Fly with me, dark messenger of sorrow We'll face the empty, cold tomorrow Black as night, two shadows now as one This warrior's final battle's done Crow's shadow merged with mine Two broken souls in dark entwined Where my heart once used to be Now flies the crow, forever free Steel and feathers, scars and wings The only things that warfare brings The crow and I will never part Darkness bound within my heart *Within my heart...* *The crow's dark heart...*
