The Crippler Lyrics

And once the blight infects your brain
You're done, you're lost, you're gone insane!
The pain consumes, damnation looms
You're on towards your dreaded doom
No light, just gray, no warming rays
No love to lose, no golden days
Then in the night abhorrent fright
The Welcome end nowhere in sight
Still in your mind you dream to rise
Yet always seem to fall behind

Paralyze your senses, crippling your mind
Broken and defenseless, silent, deaf, and blind
Baffled and deluded, bloodied, lost and lame
Banishment; excluded, alone with loss and pain!

Solo - Richards

So nobly we fight for both wrong and right
In conflict we are one, and so it has begun
The war is won, the battle lost,
In solitude we count the cost
We strive to fight, to turn the tide,
Yet triumph leaves us dead inside
Betrayal's scar, the phantom limb,
Innocence ripped away by sin
In time perhaps you'll come to yearn:
To live, to love, to grow, to learn

Paralyze your senses, crippling your mind
Broken and defenseless, silent, deaf, and blind
Baffled and deluded, bloodied, lost and lame
Banishment; excluded, alone with loss and pain!

Solo - Richards

Time heals yet these wounds still fester and reek
Tomorrow's confusion the bane of the weak
I beg you, the answer! This wisdom I seek...
Where is the justness, the mirth for the meek?

These broken souls forlorn, adrift in grief and scorn
A fatal dance with fate, salvation come too late
What's left to see when all are blind?
How do we bear with what's left behind?
To just live, it seems, will not suffice
Thusly damned we suffer life.