Pain Of Salvation: Plains Of Dawn

"I'm here now, by your side"
Sheltered from the cold, a soldier guards a boy.
Clocks are cutting as times pass by their pain
<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">'''1:''' bringing release
'''2:''' keep trying,
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">'''1:''' through the book
'''2:''' keep trying,
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">'''1:''' on his knees
'''2:''' keep dying inside
</div>
"Hush now little child, it's time to say goodnight.
Find rest in my lullaby this night
<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">'''1:''' I'll still be
'''2:''' keep falling
'''3:''' blind figures
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">'''1:''' here when the
'''2:''' keep falling
'''3:''' controlling
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">'''1:''' nightmists draw near
'''2:''' keep falling down now
'''3:''' his life
</div>
'''1:''' Have faith my son -
reach for my hand and I'll walk with you till the sun goes down.
Follow me now, we will meet again in
<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">your land.
'''2:''' have faith my son
</div>'''1:''' Now I'll lead you home

'''1:''' Opening stillness, reaching through
<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">illness
'''2:''' They walk in
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">nightmist
'''1:''' At last, we meet again. I'm so close to you
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">now
'''3:''' Again we laugh</div>
Where shallow waters reach for unknown mystic shores
they gaze at the horizon and smile
</lyrics>

(Solo: Daniel Gildenlw)

<lyrics>
"Behold my son -
reach for the vision that fills your mind,
just let go and run.
Follow the path that was meant for you
<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">long ago
behold my son</div>And cross the plains of
<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">dawn
Wordless questions, tearful</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">confessions
They meet at</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">last
now</div>when it is time to go separate<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">ways
fading</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">pages
They have touched through ages</div>

'''1:''' Remember me my son, it's time to say...goodbye.
I'll free you from your prison - now<div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">go!
'''2:''' winning a war
'''3:''' keep running
'''4:''' You're free
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">now
'''3:''' keep running
'''2:''' made him lose
'''4:''' the wave
</div><div style="border-left: 2px solid black; margin-top: 2px;">meets the shore!
'''3:''' keep running home kid
'''2:''' evermore
</div>
"Farewell my son -
the tubes that were straining you to a death within life are gone.
Wait for us, I and your mother will cherish you my son.
I cry as I'm watching you run across plains of dawn."

...and so through that evening
a soldier is leaving
his son once again and
a war has been lost...
Forlorn he is reeling,
unmendably kneeling.
But fate leaves no choice: now
he must close the book!