Epitaph Bonus

by Fates Warning

From the album: The Spectre Within

Duration: 10:11

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Lyrics for Epitaph Bonus

Isolation freezes my life, coldness grips my heart Trapped within a world, a world apart Desolate am I, a tempest raging silently Lost, a barren soul adrift at sea Catatonic state, it sharpens life's depressing edge The clamor it draws me closer to the ledge As I gaze upon this burning world, I curse this life A life through which I'm hurled Lies, lies upon this side and that Senseless violence, deception mourned by the wise Thousands of voices drowning out his own In a popular torrent of lies upon lies Turn to stone So intense the pain that has crawled From the bleeding corpse of pleasure That feeds the worm that writhes Inside my brain In the deep of night it stirs again In the heart of the sleeper From the crack of dawn I wake to curse The rising of the sun Every life is built on hope Now my dreams have surely passed Inner voices haunt my numbered days Darkness calls me with her laughs Torn between life and death, inertia fills my soul No will to be nor pride to care, reapers take your toll Strangers cast a menacing glance as existence I defy Shatter their dream-like world, we're all born to die Torn between life and death, inertia fills my soul No will to be nor pride to care, the reapers take their toll Strangers cast a menacing glance as existence I defy Shatter their dream-like world, we're all born to die Omen bird soars the desert land, to the castle of violence There lies a shadow of a man You see the marble towers and colored flowers They fade to brown Like the unknown inscribed in stone He's abandoned, abandoned flesh and bones He's lost in silence, swallowed in vastness Drowned in the depths of a meaningless past

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