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Come look around you: darkness cold surrounds you

A world full of evil and greed

To gray turns once bright light, thoughts cold as the night

Of hope has been crushed every seed.

Will you let this plague spread? Will you bow down your head?

Surrender your dignity?

No, stand by my side, believe and have pride

Fight back: break the chains and be free!

So spoke the old man, with sword in his frail hand

Against the grim world a lone knight

Not for fortune or fame, but for justice the flame

For the downtrodden to fight

A questing knight to be, his dream and destiny

Defender for the oppressed and weak

But what can a lone man win against the might of sin

To deaf ears it seems he did speak

I too as that old knight in the end fought alone

Trying to change this world, bring warmth to hearts of stone

But no one needs this fool’s quest, windmills I feel I fight

So die must my dreams now as I blow out my soul’s light

And so alone I’m standing, in this soulless wasteland

Abandoning all hope, my heart held in my hand

No choice but to tear it out, and bow down: I had lost

Could not turn to a kind world this cruel realm of frost

The hard way I learned that evil must win

Good deeds are worthless to all

To succeed you must bow down and embrace sin

Compassion’s for fools bound to fall

Lost all I had, compassion and love

The last knight of a losing side

So for a heart of steel, the weak to rise above

I traded blinded by pride

I saw you but saw through you, emptiness I had found

You stopped beside me as my heart fell to the ground

On its last beat, then would die compassion’s spark

A hand you put on my hand as I slipped towards the dark

But when I looked into your eyes, all I could see was fear

You should not have stopped: demons are drawing near

No knight to fight for your cause

And no sword for you to wield

Evil of man in demon form,

And no one you from it to shield!

And I looked in your eyes, I could not leave you there

To fight all alone, not when for me you care

So let me defend you now, this is my last stand

Run, escape the demons, as I fall with sword in hand

But you stood unmoving still, and so this is our fight

To face the demons of this world, defend the shard of light

That shines from your eyes into mine, and makes it worth to try

Don’t care if it’s impossible, I will live free or die

I look in your eyes, the first ones without lies

In a world that turned its back on me

Can this really be real, or should I choose the steel

And cold as the rest choose to be

Can I my soul you show? Can I trust you somehow?

My broken heart you still hold.

I won’t trade it for steel, endure the pain I feel

Come – save me from this world cold!