I stood in the shadow Between the night and down And I walked like the candle And dreamed away the dawn Before the final curtain fell Across my weary eyes I'm sure I saw the ghost of truth At least a thousand times And all that I defended Within the prison walls Was captured or surrendered I watched the banners fall And stumbling blindly through the flame I fell into the sea And drifted out upon the waves Into eternity But somehow I remembered When all the stars had flown Hidden pines, the royal sky The palms came tumbling home To glorify the prison walls They tried so hard to climb Never knowing that for them all The prison is the mind And now I know the story Before I turn the page The games I played for glory Have vanished with the age And I can only love you now And you can do the same For I have learned that love somehow Will brush away the pain