A Ruler's Burden - The Dragon's Grove

[Verse] Ash and rain fall and rise a storm of gray One feeds the mud the other covers the day Flames crackle with heat that cannot be tamed Trees departing in sparks of dust and decay This final day, dimmed by clouds hanging low [Pre-Chorus] My blackened Grove... bleeding into the sea... The forest burns fast... as my rage burns slow... To be trapped forever... in darkness with me... [Chorus] The fire burns from below me Their choking lungs filled with smoke The desperate cries all around me I'm taking it in, but no feelings are shown This Ruler’s burden compels me No longer keeping the peace You Souls may wander without me As I rest high, a ghost on the throne [Verse] No audience granted within my domain A treacherous climb to the top of my hill But lightning flashes revealing the way For those pitiful Souls their hope lingers still I cannot explain how their hope lingers still... [Bridge] It’s quiet now… as the sparks subside… A numbing of nerves… not giving in… Compassion drowned… washed away with the tide… But my resolve… cannot be thinned… [Chorus 2, rage-filled vocals] The tides rise high all around me Salt stinging wounds from within The clay runs black where they found me A Ruler betrayed, now a dragon enraged Their suffering no longer shakes me Their hopes slip into the sea A Ruler’s burden abandoned A mirror now of what they made of me [Outro, low and deep vocals] You Souls must wander without me A Ruler betrayed, now a dragon enraged…