The Phantom

This is my legacy of pain

Condemned to darkness for a thousand years

I thought I’ve learned I can disguise my tears

Inside the memory lingers on

Out on the cliffs I watch the waves

Incessant pounding like my funeral drum

Now every semblance of my heart is gone

They show how empty I’ve become

I wasn’t ready

My lifetime on God’s earth had only begun

I was the victim of

Death’s catastrophic mistake

No man sees the hands of the clock

When his moment has come

It’s not death that he fears

No man ever knows what he’s got

Till he can’t see the light for the tears

Tears

She was the one I lost in vain

She was the love I left behind that day

There were so many things I didn’t say

I’ll never have the chance again

I feel the rain upon my face

It just can’t wash away a thousand years

And though I try so hard to hide my tears

Inside your memory lingers on

I wasn’t ready

I thought that my life here had only begun

There was too much in my life

Just to take it away

No man sees the hands of the clock

When his moment has come

It’s not death that he fears

No man ever knows what he’s got

Till he can’t see the light for the tears

Tears

Your memory lingers on

Oh

No man sees the hands of the clock

When his moment has come

It’s not death that he fears

No man ever knows what he’s got

Till he can’t see the light for the tears

No man sees the hands of the clock

When his moment has come

It’s not death that he fears

No man ever knows what he’s got

Till he can’t see the light for the tears

Tears

I feel the rain upon my face

I just can’t wash away a thousand years

And though I try so hard to hide my tears

Inside your memory lingers on