The Promise lyrics

[Verse 1]
Surrender to a ceaseless path
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
Submit to the scourge pit
Carving the lines across an age'ed face, giving misery its place

[Pre-Chorus]
Ragged men in ragged clothes
Silver thorn and bloody rose
Pride that has come to define
The martyrdom spoiling our minds

[Chorus]
My triumph's a desert, barren and tame
Who was the promise for?
Laborious tasks that are futile and vain
Who was the promise for?
Meaningless bonds that succ*mb to the years
But who was the promise for?
Now we're washing the sand with our salty tears
Who was the promise for?

[Verse 2]
Forsake the ceaseless path
Escape a hollow shrine of crumbling halls
Layers of mold on toppled walls
Emerge from the scourge pit
Carving the lines across an age'ed face, giving misery its place
[Pre-Chorus]
We're still ragged men in ragged clothes
Broken face and bloody nose
Arrogance comes to define
The shrillness entwined in our whine

[Chorus]
Exhausting a thought for a lifetime of pain
Who was the promise for?
An animate corpse that is toiling in vain
Who was the promise for?
A silence so loud that it rings in our ears
(Who was the promise for?)
Now we're washing the sand with our ghostly tears
Who was the promise for?

[Bridge]
Blind leading blind
Never feel the laughter
Search through time
Nothing reveals the answer
Blind leading blind
Never feel the laughter
Search through time
Nothing reveals the answer
[Outro]
Unmoored
Adrift in a nebulous void
Unmoored
Sink in a depthless void