To Remember lyrics

To remember

Duty bound for an age

Relieved only in death

A sacred trust kept

That sacrifice made

Would not be senseless

Let none forget them

That the scars palpable

And those imperceptible

Would always keep them

The pains of living borne

Unfelt by the slain now gone

They never sing, nor age

Their faces, their voices

Venture in dreams of it

The horrors of carnage

From tranquil towns yet

They came to perish here

Sent away so colourful

They all got home unknowingly

Yet none were happy to see

Their son or daughter return so

Escorted by an honour guard

What honour is there in tears?

So many stories may have been

Now silence broken by weeping

Such trauma to meet family

With no words to amend wrongs

Humility is a burden so very heavy

That it bends the body down

To remember, an oath to keep

Wearing shame, a thorny crown

The guilt of allowing the death

Of their precious legacy lost so

And unable to give just cause

That satisfies the jury present

No words can pass more harsh

A judgment than a good soul

That struggles with the costs

The deeds that made it so

Their pain will fade slowly

The years will take them all

In the end there's but to remember

For mortal men can do no more

Those bound by death await it

Its calling some solace to resolve

Crimes left to contemplate, unsaid

All vanishing in time's spiraling eddies