You're willing victim But the crime we cannot know You are the hope that ever turned to flight I raise the cry that drifts across the burning fields And rake the embers of your fading light As I cry arise I turn the dead to claim your prize And though I stare through Come closer I knew you And though I burn through You know we were fragile after all You kept no promise With no safeguards ever asked What summer's madness drew you back to us I rock the cradle when the thought of you is gone And warmest answers leave us cold enough One for remembrance And one for safe return Their colours wilted in your blaze of light One for forgiveness And the spoils we cannot keep We'll live again before you leave my side