THE HEROES OF OUR DAYS
Lyrics: Matthew Morrese
Music: Alexander James Adams

(Who were they?)
They who say
WILL YOU EVER REMEMBER OUR NAMES?
(Who were we?)
We who fought
FOUGHT YOUR FIGHT AND NOW YOU HAVE FORGOT!

DOES IT MATTER TO YOU
If I live … a lie?
(if I live or die?)

(If you’re they)
They who’ll sing our name
WILL YA’ TELL IT TRUE, OR WILL IT ALL JUST CHANGE?
(And, if you’re they)
They who’ll sing of this day
SAY WE WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO WALK AWAY.

DOES IT MATTER TO YOU
If I live … a lie?
(if I live or die?)

(Look into the glass that’s scattered all across the floor)
A tenement tore
(Your shattered eyes and scattered lies are begging you for more)
Tell me what’s it for?
(Look into your broken heart it’s knocking on our door)
Have you ever seen war?
(I see you bar and lock it shut, an effort to ignore)
Can I ignore it this time?
(It’s you that wants your name one day written up in the stars?)
(Don’t you wonder how a name thunders near and far?)
Oh no, every fool and coward have made it up that far!
(Don’t you hear them calling out in need of one more king?)
(Can’t you see them crying out in silent suffering?)
Well I’m so very tired of fire and fighting futile things
IN SILENT SUFFERING


(But we’re the sires of hope and need)
Bastard children on bloody knees!
(We’re the sires of your creed!)
Wasted lives and therapy!
(What’s your faith, where’s your trust?)
It’s in misery!

SO DOES IT MATTER TO YOU
If I live … a lie?
(if we live or die?)

(We’re all livin’ in an age of soldiers and saints
And I know ya think we’re everything, I’m tellin’ ya we ain’t!
Ask what you will and have your fill of fate and fantasy
But the fairy tale you’re tellin’ is a toll that isn’t free!

(Do you believe in a beating heart?
Do you keep to faith when it falls apart?)

(Bleed for a cause maybe you’ll find a way)
Bleed for a lie maybe you’ll find a way

(To live with yourself on your dying day!)
To live with the truth on your dying day!

Cause we’re all livin’ in an age of shepherds and sheep
The crook that marks the will of which, stolen by a thief
So have your way with any day, but take all that you tell
And figure out if truth or lies is really what you sell

(Do you believe in a beating heart?
Do you keep to faith when it falls apart?)

(Bleed for a cause maybe you’ll find a way)
Why don’t you bleed for a lie maybe you’ll find a way

(To live with yourself on your dying day!)
To live with the truth on your dying day!

(Cause we’re all livin’ in an age of soldiers and saints)
Cause we’re all livin’ in an age of shepherds and sheep
(The wisdom of which was led to the light to late)
The anthem of which was dead to the dark we reap
(Have what you want take what you will, forget everything else)
So have your way with any day, but take all that you tell
(But, believe me when you hear the tolls of gallows bells)
And figure out if you or I will fall where Shadows fell!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN A BEATING HEART?
DO YOU KEEP TO FAITH WHEN IT FALLS APART?
(Bleed for a cause maybe you’ll find a way)
Bleed for a lie maybe you’ll find a way

(To live with yourself on your dying day)
To live with the truth on your dying day

It shouldn’t matter to me
If I live or die

(Follow me to defy
Whereupon Shadows lie)

(So wake us up when the world falls away
When the blackened skies fade back to gray)
Aegis sings her lullaby!
(When the Shadowed halls shed light on the walls
Of our darkened hearts, we came when we were called)
We should’ve never asked why
(If we’re to live or if we’d die)
I’d lie!

(Oh, wake us up when the world falls away
At Age’s End, beneath the Worldsgrave)
Aegis sings her lullaby!
(When the journey’s done, if Shadow’s won
Will you still be here, take my hand and run)
We should’ve never asked why
(If we’re to live or we’d die)
Oh, I’d lie!

(So, wake us not for we’ve already gone
Remember us well, won’t ya sing our song?)
‘cause Aegis writes my lullaby!
(We’ll do what we must, in friendship we trust
Death may not break this love)
And it doesn’t matter why
(If we live or if we die)
In the end, you know, I tried

RECAP:
So, now we’ll walk over a thousand miles
A thousand words are gonna tell our tale
A hundred songs written all the while
Whether we succeed or whether we fail

(A year it takes for a thousand miles)
A decade more to find our way
(A lifetime gone for you and I)
And there we stand the heroes of our day

A LIFETIME GONE FOR YOU AND I
AND THERE YOU’LL STAND –
THE HEROES OF OUR DAY!