The Clouding - Iced Earth

As I awake, I have no memory of this

Who I am, where I’m from

Why do I exist?

This strange beauty surrounds me

But where I am, confounds me

I see others

Who appear the same as me

A look of loss in their eyes

Adrift aimlessly

What’s the point?

What does it all mean?

Who am I?

Show me a purpose please

Take this sense of wonder

Make it go away

Please tell me I am not

Alone and lost here

That there is something

That’s made me feel this way

Take this sense of sadness

Make it go away

Please give me something

That’s familiar

A friendly touch, a memorable embrace

I try to speak

But empty eyes stare back at me

Twisted tongues segregate

Factions are forming

I’ll stay with those that resemble me

To survive this harsh reality

As the days pass, most have gone their own way

Nomadic tribes discover life

On a world that feels so strange

But still I want answers

What’s the point?

What does all this mean?

Take this sense of wonder

Make it go away

Please tell me I am not

Alone and lost here

That there is something

That’s made me feel this way

Take this sense of sadness

Make it go away

Please give me something

That’s familiar

A friendly touch, a memorable embrace

Lies, the human core is lies

We wiped their minds, cleaned the slate

The clouding did divide

Fate, we sealed human fate

Now, they’re ours throughout all time

To manipulate

Never trust in the motives of man

They failed to evolve

In mother Nature’s plan

And though they seem safe

In this early clouded state

The nature of their heresy

Has proven quite innate

Pain, mankind will know pain

For their crimes on our kind

They’ll never be the same

Death, they will know death

Suffering for centuries

At war with every breath

Never trust in the motives of man

They failed to evolve

In mother Nature’s plan

And though they seem safe

In this early clouded state

The nature of their heresy

Has proven quite innate