Beyond The Gates

Beyond the Gates

Try seeing from another angle
Try walking in my shoes
I gave you my devotion
I put my faith in you
Like sheep led to the slaughter
I kneel in adoration
With a pale grin of jester
I face my condemnation

Neither angels with fallen wings
Nor sacred apes of God
My promised land is wasted
Paradise lost
The lavish years of glamour
Ephemeral splendor
With pomp and circumstance
En route to decadence

Chasing the trails of glory
A long and winding road
Behind the lost horizon
Thy kingdom come

At the dawn of a scarlet Sun
Darkness fades and shadows run
Facing the weeping God
Beyond the gates

A lifespan full of sorrow
Down the road of misery
A dead end, a shorthand story
Engraved on a headstone