[Verse 1] Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, the sun was sinking low. I stood there long, a traveler, with nowhere left to go. I looked down one as far as I could, up the winding track— I had to move, I had to walk, with shadows at my back. I heard a serpentine promise, felt the trickery in the wind, I picked a path to keep moving, 'cause staying meant the end. [Pre-Chorus] Dark imaginings. Dark imaginings. Swallowed by the dark till the miles broke my bones. The ground gives way to the creeping emptiness. There is no road behind. No way I ever come back. [Chorus] I risked it all on pitch-and-toss [Stop] [Silence] [shout] AND I LOST. [Heavy Stomp] And I can't breathe a word about the cost. I took the road traveled by, out in the trodden black, And knowing one way destroys the other, I ain't never coming back. [Verse 2] I gave my life to build it up, now I watch it all get broke. I hear the quiet truth I spoke, twisted in the smoke. Knaves made a trap for fools, and I walked right in all the same, I tried to make peace with the Lord, but He didn't know my name. Nothing beside remains, just a dry wind through the rust, The unforgiven minute claimed its heavy, heavy toll in dust. [Pre-Chorus] Dark imaginings. Dark imaginings. Swallowed by the dark till the miles broke my bones. The ground gives way to the creeping emptiness. There is no road behind. No way I ever come back. [Chorus] I risked it all on pitch-and-toss [Stop] [Silence] [shout] AND I LOST. [Heavy Stomp] And I can't breathe a word about the cost. I took the road traveled by, out in the trodden black, And knowing one way destroys the other, I ain't never coming back. [Bridge] "Fill the minute... keep your head... look out upon your land..." I did it all, I chased the height, with nothing in my hand. "Yours is the Earth," they promised me, "and everything within it..." No pedestal, no monument—just two stone feet in the sand. [Slide Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] I risked it all on pitch-and-toss [Stop] [Silence] [shout] AND I LOST. [Heavy Stomp] Half-sunk in gravel, choking on the cost. I took the road traveled by, out in the trodden black, And knowing one way destroys the other, I ain't never coming back. No, I ain't never coming back! [Outro] [Dragging March] Boundless and bare... [Whisper] (Or walk with Kings...) No kingdom here... Just level sand... [Whisper] (Look on my works...) A fool who ruled over nothing at all. Ain't never coming back... [End]
