Antemortem - Cain's Offering

There’s beauty in pain that paints every day

With colours that stay and won’t fade away

In wounds that won’t heal, in nightmares too real

They tell us that we can still feel

In fire we’re forged and given a form

The harder the hammer, the stronger the soul

For all of our tears and all of our scars

They remind us of who we are

One is for the heart we left behind

One is for a friend who said goodbye

One is for the love we swore would never die

(But that was in another lifetime)

One is for the times we were denied

One is for the feelings locked inside

One is for the secrets that we’ve had to hide

(But that was in another lifetime)

We might’ve been kings, we might have been pawns

We might’ve been ducklings, we might have been swans

There’s no grand design, there’s only desire

You’re either the pearl or the swine

For all that we’ve lost and our every tear

The choices we’ve made have brought us here

Everything we are, everything we have

We have built from fragments

One is for the heart we left behind

One is for a friend who said goodbye

One is for the love we swore would never die

(But that was in another lifetime)

One is for the times we were denied

One is for the feelings locked inside

One is for the secrets that we’ve had to hide

(But that was in another lifetime)

(That was in another lifetime)

Please believe in me, because the man you see

Is not the man I used to be

We may always be alone and broken

But we have survived, we are alive

One is for the heart we left behind

One is for a friend who said goodbye

One is for the love we swore would never die

(But that was in another lifetime)

One is for the times we were denied

One is for the feelings locked inside

One is for the secrets that we’ve had to hide

(But that was in another lifetime)

Time after time, people try, just to

Feel once more the fire that burns

Every time we fall to the ground

And everything we leave behind

(Oh, that was in another lifetime)