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II. Arriving

Run!

Ambition has flooded your eyes

Run!

And cleared out the hatred and lies

Defeat is a claw at your back

Under your feet

Pound the sand of the past

"Son! Your mother is waiting for you"

Said the man

With the blade

And the black 22

Don't listen don't listen don't

Let him fill you

Hear the truth

The tower hides

Behind the fell

I'm bound to run

By speed by spell

Better this present

Than yesterday's hell

We walk on the backs of the dead

Floating in time like the logs on a river

Sun sinking slow

Like a low slab of flame

Tower eclipsing

All but your name

Shadows embracing

My shaking frame

Ready the blade

The tower hides

Behind the fell

I'm bound to run

By speed by spell

Better this present

Than yesterday's hell

Lies heaved from

The lungs of the

Taunting fool

Poured in your ears

From a murky cesspool

Don't listen don't listen don't

Let him fill you

Run!

Onward!

Forward!

Sheet of flame

Say my name

I'm running to bond with the others

The host of the chosen

The sisters and brothers

Bearing tall where we stand

The child is wearing

The horns of a man

Behind you the poisonous lies

Before you the gleam of the keep

The sunset is filling your eyes

With the path of promise you see

Onward!

Forward!

Sheet of flame

Say my name

The tower hides

Behind the fell

I'm bound to run

By speed by spell

Better this present

Than yesterday's hell