And so Opens the Earth (Ash Memory Part I) - Wilderun

After years of hiding in the dark

A sound is heard and the shadow is pulled apart

Just a whisper, just a fading song

A prey to capture before its voice is gone

I’ve scorched this land with the blood of my past

So nothing left breathing is ever able to last

I will drop all the riches I hold

To seek the candle that lights in the winter’s cold

From the woods you crawled a life ago

Here you swore you’d stay

The mountain pass is marked with the very same stone

But the leaves have fallen, the trail is overgrown

I will forge ahead with the strength that I steal

From a false remembrance, from a time that wasn’t real

Look back home before you go

It will soon be lost

And only when the last memory has burned

Will I believe a lesson has been learned

In the ashes I’ll trace a map to guide me far

Not knowing that life still flows

Its soul becomes a scar

And if we stand

Choice laughs in our face

So we will go

And trust that something’s changed

So the last wound mends

So the earth opens