A Hollow Promise

All has been done, let's contest this fortune
Looming second time in the despondent dark
This empty castle that I am
All this time I've kept this void
Swept up in the current in vain
I was persuaded with the time
Yet I see no absolution now

The world is wasted without regret
For deep within I always yearned
Yearning with pain for all those years
And now it's all too late
The resentment is a fate
The gift of fate
In fact the gift of fate

So if you really go the whole way
And see how you feel at the prospect of vanishing forever
Of all your efforts and all your achievements and all
Your attainments turning into dust and nothingness
And the laughter echoes only in one's mindEyes like dark fire
But so warm as night
Caring, restless
So much life could have been
If the flight of sleep
Were a great thing
In this cold, vacant sky
As the shade
Lay on her face
As the shade
Lay on her face
Like a trembling young youth
Chasing his voice of memories
Like a saint's wonder
In the cold and the bright
As hope, as time
Lead into the comfort
Promising a false tomorrow
That could never come
The hollow promise
The hollow promise
The hollow promise