If All I Thought Were True - Attack In Black

if priests are princes' hallowed shadowed souls

if devils are angels cast to know

I live forever with a sharp regret it might be a surprise to know I never

wished for death

a hint of misery made its way along

to those who’ve never harmed or never wronged

if honesty changed the hearts of men

who could contend?

if all I thought were true

in this great divide that is my life

I fear to think of all I’d undo

if all I thought were true…

even my own ears would never care to know

what deep inside ourselves our hearts behold a sky in shards, our world’s

unraveled parts

impossible to piece as one in our unending dark