Apathy - The Path

"Blind as I was born
Just as all you are
Hanging by the arms
Staring at the wall
But then I saw the light
And followed through the dark
Now rise up from the ground
Walk with me into the World beyond"

There he stood before
Burning like the fire
Glowing with an aura
Golden as a God
So we took his word
And ventured from our home
Through benighted eyes
We watched reality unfold

He walked among the lost
Guiding us to find ourselves
To those we came across
We welcome them to join our cause
As one we traveled on
Gathering what knowledge that we could
But wisest of us all
Still remained our Savior
Who we called Messiah

And so with time we passed his mighty share of wisdom
Tales of distant lands and long forgotten kingdoms

"What if I told you of a place salvation waits?
Would you pay the price to spend the rest of life in Paradise?"

Then he led us on the way
Revealing what lay hidden in this oasis
But instead we found the ruins of a promise unfulfilled
A false premise he recruited us to build

"We live to suffer in this realm
So together won't you share the pain?
And know that you will not have toiled in vain
For I shall revel in the bounty of your faith"

To see through the charade
Not to be enslaved again
Exposed now to his game
Disposing our chains
We tore him limb from limb

Then we took upon the reins
Of the choices that remained
And left our separate ways
With freedom in our hands
To guide us on the path

Turning back to back
We ventured through the wild again
Searching for a home
A place to call our own at last
Severing from our faults
Divided now on separate roads
Never again to fall
Victim to such hope
We face this world alone