Alpha Leonis
Shadows of Men
the house is empty but it looks like we remember itthe colors just a little less aliveold, graying photographs in broken glass dusty artifactslives trapped inside a framehow to get out- the constancy that wore us down with every workday"nothing risked is nothing gained," they say a nothing town the constancy that weathered grand ambition awayI ride the subway at a quarter past fiveand I look back through the window as I leavethis might be a purgatory, of sortssteel serpents of the underground regimelives trapped inside a framehow to get out- the constant sea that wore us down with every workday"nothing risked is nothing gained," they say a nothing town the constant sea that weathered grand ambition awaywe inherit the wealths and the debts of our fathersand claim ancient rites that had us bound from progresswell, we'd take it all in hand as if the clay of the earth had all been damnedLetras de cancioneswe'd set off to the west as if the hounds were behind usbut the sun always rose in the east to remind usthat though light's born of darkness we are still the shadows of menbetween moments of greatnessblack nights entertained uswith ghosts of rotten lovers in our bedsworn prospect and purposea pennance well worth itand if fortune misguides our arrowswe are still the shadows of men
From Letras Mania