"The Fall" lyrics

Oh, how I've tired of watching this change
That hardened shell that you became
What happened to those words once sang?
Once a messenger, once a king

Once the fire, once the flame
Once shone light in darkest places
Guns and lies and wasted nights
Failing to judge thy self
Washed all away, stolen away
By a thirst from self and fame
Your lust for the sun

Your once great light
Your one true heart
Lost to the maze
A dragon with rubies

Your once great light
Your one true heart
Now giving way to darkness
Now giving way to weakness and vanity

So disappointing to watch this change
The blackened heart that you became
A pale reflection of once great space
A lost defender of our faith

Now your fire stole away
Now more light dust in trade

Shine no more
Now just the same
As the wolves and pigs you claimed to hate

Shine no more
Now just the same
As all the wolves and pigs

Once the fire, once the flame
Once shone light in darkest places
Under black, fell away
Your once great light
It now fades

Morphine lies
Such wasted lives
Lost to the darkness
Now fly away to your safest place
Nothing more to fight or chase
And sing your songs once more

Yes, fly away
To those true days
And untethered you can spread
Your light
Through the heavens

Fell to this earth
Lost those great wings
The one true message
Now means nothing