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Funeral Games

from City of God by Sophie's Dream

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your funeral games were starting
i could count myself amongst the broken hearted
if i could do it all again
well i don't know, maybe things would be different
your funeral games will go on
three days' time then we'll all just have to move on
but it's not so easy
each time i close my eyes i know i'll never be free

i wish i could've known you, but peace of mind is hard to come by
i wish i could've known you to be so cruel, to be so kind but
your story wasn't mine to realize, to be a part of
if i could see with your eyes and give you mine, would that be enough?

at your funeral games the people
weep and carry you up to the steeple
i can hear it from the hills above
i look down over the streets you loved
these games are for the living
i hope that the dead are more forgiving
and a cool breeze touches my face
but it isn't right, if i could i would give you my place

i wish i could've given you the freedom you so dearly sought
but freedom of another kind is all the gods have let me wrought
you're free from the final chains while i am trapped here, a prisoner's play
no god commands you now but i live in the shadow, and here i'll stay

if i could i would give you your life, a story started, all too concise
only fate but the fate is mine so breathless i apologize
for all the lives you'll never touch, who'll never know you meant so much
for all the thoughts inside your head which vanish now are put to rest

and for the futures now destroyed, banished to the timeless void
and for the sweet sights lost to you, the beauty of the world you knew
but what use to you is guilt, it doesn't reclaim your blood spilt
and what use to your lost love, what could ever be enough

if i knew a way to drag back time, remove you from the fates' design
if i'd never gone to war, lived my life as i had before
if i could write this tale anew, if i could give my life for you

your funeral games are ending
you told someone i love there's no use in pretending

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from City of God, released August 23, 2014

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