Unbowed - The Mourning Shade Lyrics

It stalks me as I walk
The shade that breaks and burns
Fills the air with a thick low rumbling song
I failed to learn

The past has claimed the present
The future now starves in-tow
What shelter might find the broken man
When fate is so cold

Assault the darkness
Attack the unknown
Lunge forth and break the shapeless form
To carve something new from it's bones

I inhale the ash
Amidst soot and stone
The endless path paved in lesser men
The drowning waters of never again

Assault the darkness
Attack the unknown
Lunge forth and break the shapeless form
Carve something new from its bones

There's a demon on my back
Been there for some time
He whispers courage into me
From a tongue slick with riddles and slime

Never lets me settle
Never lets me catch my breath
Tells me my purpose is to be something more
Says I'm unlike the rest
Until my death

I believe in something more
I believe in the truth
Make not the light your home
But the deepest and the darkest roots

The path is riddled with unlight
So make it your home
For no good can be found in sol
If not for the black and the coal