The Blinded Torch Lyrics

Feel the rotting wind
Flying through the warm night
Leave me here
In the cage of moon-light

Down this river to hell we’re sailing
Deep into this ancient land
The jungle’s whispers call me
Their taunts can break the hardest heart
A hunt for wealth and the spoils of ivory
Plundered at the cost of slave’s blood
Liars trade for souls of men
At the barrels of their guns

A demigod by his own hand
Tyrant from a foreign land
Visionary’s white fire
Lighting the blinded torch
Alone with his own madness
Even a hero falls
Prey to the nagging weakness
Within this darkened heart

This river carries the blood of injustice
Through the veins of Earth’s heart
“The Horror, the horror..”

Even the genius must
Face the terror
Hiding in the forest of his mind
The true savage waits
Within the ego
Your own truth
Becomes lies

Grab your rifles men
And take a swig of the last rum
Gallantly we charge
To reclaim our outpost

Shrunken heads on wooden poles
Their gazes blank and empty
No longer of our kind
The visionary’s gone blind

Even the genius must
Face the terror
Hiding in the forest of his mind
The true savage waits
Within the ego
Your own truth
Becomes lies

You die a coward
But you’re a braver man than I
All wounds never heal

Here in this heart of darkness