Born In a Barren Land

A thousand years

A thousand lifetimes away

I sit alone and I drink to memories outcast

Come so far

These memories just to escape

But in my mind the past is footsteps away

And then the young man said unto me

The dark cloud on your brow's plain to see

Said you've wandered long from where you once came

The place you call home, does it have a name?

A thousand years

A thousand lifetimes away

I sit alone and I drink to memories outcast

Come so far

These memories just to escape

I drink alone to a place I'd rather forget

This throat is dry and cracked from my silence

And my eyes lost focus from watching the past

But still I turned to him with this guidance

And told him the tale of a bitter outcast

Said

I was told of exalted bloodlines

And pasts writing futures on these palms

My mother bloomed in the greenest gardens

My father the prince among seven sons

But I'm so far from my whitefish sisters

Who call from the cold and distant streams

A fleeting glimpse at a pale horizon

A path that I'll walk alone it seems

Three fifths a man

I was bred in the dust and sand

For I was born in a barren land

They said

You’re just

Three fifths a man

I was bred in the dust and sand

For I was born in a barren land

He said just think of what's yet to come

Now that you're in a place that you choose

But how can you think of futures when you're numb?

When you face up to your demons and lose?

I grew tired of exalted bloodlines

And gouged out the future from these palms

My mother burned and my father made me

A bastard abandoned on these shores

But I still hear my whitefish sisters

Who call from the cold and distant seas

Closer now to that pale horizon

The path that I walk alone supreme

Three fifths a man

I was bred in the dust and sand

For I was born in a barren land

They said

You’re just

Three fifths a man

I was bred in the dust and sand

For I was born in a barren land

I'll drink here alone till thy kingdom come

And for those who'll listen I have these tidings

You should never forget where you're from

But it's much harder to live with the truth than hiding

Three fifths a man

I was bred in the dust and sand

For I was born in a barren land

They said

You’re just

Three fifths a man

I was bred in the dust and sand

For I was born in a barren land

Years ago

All that we know

Became the dark shadow that follows us

Cracked from below

Dream of the snow

Under the omniscient gaze of sun

Seven months old

Silver and gold

Eroded till the fairness turns to rust

Crawling across

Shores of salt

Watching all those with us turn to dust

Watching those around us turn to dust