A Long Way Back Lyrics

In the years before the madness and the fears

The bitter tears would flow like rivers

Raging harder

Drown the spirit and the rhyme

Beneath the waves to ebb in time

Beyond the tempest of the martyr

Curse the dark and damn rain

Cut through the bars cast off the chains

And run the demons from their shadows

In the mirror are the lies

Beside the ghost the paralyzes

The will and chills the marrow

We are lost the captain said

Then laid his hands upon the dead

And set adrift the broken hearted

Down the long and winding stair

Through darkened halls still unaware

The labyrinth keeps them where they started

It's a long way back

Hang me from the tree of the sorrow

It's a long way back

Set the sail and rise upon the morrow