Lyric

The towers fade behind us

Under a colourless sky

No banners left to follow

No reason left to lie

We ride beyond the border

With fewer every day

The kingdoms heard our pleading

Then quietly looked away

I watch the darkened ridges

And listen through the rain

A road I’ve never travelled

Keeps calling out my name

So take me past the old walls

Past every warning sign

Where strangers rule in silence

And dead men hold the line

If those we called the righteous

Have nothing left to give

Maybe somewhere we were taught to fear

Is where we learn to live

Slow, soaring guitar bends

Long sustained notes over piano and strings

The streets beyond the gateway

Are colder than I knew

No drunken guards are shouting

No frightened horses move

I thought I’d find a monster

At the ending of this road

Instead I found a quiet place

And questions of my own

They drew the world in two for us

And told us where to stand

But every mile has washed away

Another line in sand

Emotional high-register bends

Orchestra gradually rises underneath

Now open up the gates ahead

We’ve nowhere else to turn

The home we tried to rescue

Still glows beyond the hills

I came here fearing what I’d find

But fear is changing shape

And somewhere past these silent walls

A different answer waits

The road goes on

So do I