The Promise Thou

[Verse 1]
Surrender to a ceaseless path
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
Submit to the scourge pit
Carving the lines across an age'ed face, giving misery its place

[Pre-Chorus]
Ragged men in ragged clothes
Silver thorn and bloody rose
Pride that has come to define
The martyrdom spoiling our minds

[Chorus]
My triumph's a desert, barren and tame
Who was the promise for?
Laborious tasks that are futile and vain
Who was the promise for?
Meaningless bonds that succumb to the years
But who was the promise for?
Now we're washing the sand with our salty tears
Who was the promise for?

[Verse 2]
Forsake the ceaseless path
Escape a hollow shrine of crumbling halls
Layers of mold on toppled walls
Emerge from the scourge pit
Carving the lines across an age'ed face, giving misery its place