THE PHANTOM

This is my legacy of pain

Condemned to darkness for a thousand years

Though I’ve learned I can disguise my tears

Inside the memory lingers on

Out on the cliffs I watch the waves

Incessant pounding like my funeral drum,

Not every semblance of my heart is gone

They show how empty I’ve become

I wasn’t ready, my lifetime on God’s earth had only begun

I was the victim of death’s catastrophic mistake

No man sees the hands of the clock

When his moment come, it’s not death that he fears

No man ever knows what he’s got

Till he can’t see the light for the tears

She was the one I lost in vain

She was the love I left behind that day

There were so many things I didn’t say

I’ll never have the chance again

I feel the rain upon my face

It just can’t wash away a thousand years

And though I try so hard to hide my tears

Inside your memory lingers on

I wasn’t ready, I thought that my life here had only begun

There was too much in my life just to take it away

No man sees the hands of the clock

When his moment come, it’s not death that he fears

No man ever knows what he’s got

Till he can’t see the light for the tears

I feel the rain upon my face

It just can’t wash away a thousand years

And though I try so hard to hide my tears

Inside your memory lingers on