Wasted Years - Praying Mantis

Deep into my soul

I search for what remains

Once a heart so pure, bad blood now in my veins

WonDering what I ll finD

A world that’s changed in line

This man has yet to live, just still a child in time

I believed that things would turn arounD

But hope that faded every day

I survived with madness close behinD

Which man did I really betray

I’ve tasted death, I d fought anD I’d won

Died for this day, this day to come

I have waited for this moment in time

I could have cried a thousanD tears

But this freedom now, is all I 'll ever need

Redemption of these wasted years

A Life has passed me by My youth had been anD gone

The bitterness is deep, it drives me on anD on In realms of power, I was the sacrifice

The cheating of innocent, the loaded dice

I believed that things would turn arounD

But hope that faded every day

I survived with madness close behinD

Which man did I really betray

I’ve tasted death, I d fought anD I d won

Died for this day, this day to come

I have waited for this moment in time

I could have cried a thousanD tears

But this freedom now, is all I ll ever need

Redemption of these wasted years