an elegy
it actually kinda works to the tune of Hollow Years, or at least parts of it
Facing the last of the dying soldiers
The child shed a tear
Asking him why he’d lost his soul in
A battle that wasn’t his own
The warrior falls in love with his mission
Surmounting fate’s own goals
The child stares in fearful amazement
Idolizing his enemy’s soul
Blood is found on the breast of the faded
Cradled in the breath of the mother
The child sees them die
And with all its honor
Without glory and his song
To see his life in the eyes of a child
The warrior lives on
Facing the last of the fallen heroes
The tragically guilty see the blameless die
Because he shot him to the ground
The child sees the soldier die
Blood is found on the breast of the faded
Cradled in the breath of the mother
The child sees them die
And with all its honor
Without glory and his song
To see his life in the eyes of a child
The warrior lives on
Facing the last of the dying soldiers
The child shed a tear
Asking him why he’d lost his soul in
A battle that wasn’t his own
The warrior falls in love with his mission
Surmounting fate’s own goals
The child stares in fearful amazement
Idolizing his enemy’s soul
Blood is found on the breast of the faded
Cradled in the breath of the mother
The child sees them die
And with all its honor
Without glory and his song
To see his life in the eyes of a child
The warrior lives on
Facing the last of the fallen heroes
The tragically guilty see the blameless die
Because he shot him to the ground
The child sees the soldier die
Blood is found on the breast of the faded
Cradled in the breath of the mother
The child sees them die
And with all its honor
Without glory and his song
To see his life in the eyes of a child
The warrior lives on