Helpless lyrics

We were so young

A day like any other

But the sun never set

For the fated one

In but a single instant

From nowhere it came

To rake havoc unwarranted

Upon life's ignorant naivety

And there lain strewn asunder

Writhing in temporal suffering

Last gasps of a mortal being

A frenzy of haste for naught

Helpless to change destiny

To undo what was done

Only to witness a harsh truth

We all must die some time

The dead do not suffer so

Their wounds are relieved soon

Those injuries unseen, lasting

Are borne by the living still

The sun shone that blurred day

A nightmare awake and alert

That taught terror deeply etched

And spent living a treasure earned