When It Falls - Jeff Williams

Maybe red’s like roses

Maybe it’s the pool of blood

The innocents will lay in

When in the end, you’ve failed to save them

Their dying eyes

Are wide and white like snow

And now they know

The cost of trusting you’s obliteration

Mirrors will shatter

Crushed by the weight of the world

The pillars collapse in shame

There’ll be no rest

There’ll be no love

There’ll be no hero in the end

Who will rise above

And when it ends

The good will crawl

The shining light will sink in darkness

Victory for hate incarnate

Misery and pain for all

When it falls

Swallowed by the darkness

Soon the moon is bathed in black

The light of hope is taken

And discontent is the contagion

The blinding eyes

That burn a yellow flame

The embers that remain

Will light the fuse of condemnation

Kingdoms in tatters

Hung on the brink of a war

The peace will succumb to flames

This is not a tragedy

It’s not an accident

You placed your faith in fools

And now you’ll smother in lament

They play the part of allies

Claiming peace their only goal

But once the fight for power starts

They’ll eat each other whole

Their iron gloves point fingers

They’ll wage a war of blame

And mankind will wilt in pain

There’ll be no rest

There’ll be no love

There’ll be no hero in the end

Who will rise above

And when it ends

The good will crawl

The shining light will sink in darkness

Victory for hate incarnate

Misery and pain for all

When it falls