Where Hope Once Lived

[Intro] [Verse 1] The bells no longer mark the day All of the songs dispersed away The roads he walked now lie in grey As if the light has lost its way We whisper names in lowered tone Afraid to speak of what is gone A hero rose, a hero bled And now we fear all hope is dead [Verse 2] No songs are heard from forest glades Only winds howl through the plains Shadow above our head remains The will to continue still fades We prayed the stars would still be true That faith alone would take us through But even stars can falter, fade When their kindness is not repaid [Verse 3] We asked too much from fragile hands Too much from one who barely stands A single spark across the lands Whose blood is now tainting the sands Now mothers bar their doors at dusk And fathers stare into the dust If even he could not prevail What chance remains in this cruel tale? [Verse 4] Some say the stars still watch the sky That hope yet breathes, it did not die Yet hope now feels like words gone dry A shattered truth we can't deny We sing no songs, we make no sound We mourn the light we thought we found Here silence grows where hope once lived, And nothing more is left to give [Slow End]