Childhood's End - The Unguided

While I can’t hold your hand son

I will have your back

If a mountain stood in the way of my father

The mountain would move aside

A feat that wasn’t passed down to me

A boy with a crown

An ill-fitting one

People post-breakdown

How their souls have been tested

In these times everyone

Is both judge and jury

And you still live in cages

Just with longer chains

New world disorder, that’s how we exist

New world disorder, we can’t resist

Dredge my heart of all the fear that I have inside

Minds, they forget

But the scars remember everything

No matter how much I’ve tried

You will reject

My attempts to be your rightful king

Your king

And I seem to make enemies

Faster than I make friends

I can’t really find the remedy

Do we get the life that we deserve?

New world disorder, that’s how we exist

New world disorder, we can’t resist

Dredge my heart of all the fear that I have inside

Minds, they forget

But the scars remember everything

No matter how much I’ve tried

You will reject

My attempts to be your king

Childhood’s end

A sudden end

I tried to burn away my fear and anger

And how I prayed it would hurt no longer

Imagine a king who fights his own battles

I prefer my demons stirred not shaken

You can drown your pain but it will learn to swim

Some people treat life like a disease

And I am one of them

I am one of them

All the fear that I have inside…

Dredge my heart of all the fear that I have inside

Minds, they forget

But the scars remember everything

No matter how much I’ve tried

You will reject

My attempts to be your rightful king

Your king