The Forgotten Soul lyrics

The gates appear through morning mist These walls I fought to keep But every stone and every street Feels foreign now, too deep I watched the horizon every dawn Waiting for your shadow's return I clutch the necklace that you gave The only warmth for which I yearn My armor's gone, my sword laid down But weight still crushes me I see her face in every dream But I'm no longer free Your footsteps echo down the hall Your arms around me feel so near Yet when I look into your eyes I see a stranger standing here I came back home But you're still gone I can't explain What went wrong We're standing close but worlds apart These hands that held you now have stained You came back home, but not to me, your body lives, your heart is gone I hear your voice, but I can't see, the man I was before the dawn I waited so long to feel your arms, now I hold a ghost instead I survived the blade, the war, the storm, but left my soul among the dead I try to hold you like before But my hands remember steel I close my eyes to kiss your lips But all I taste is what was real The gentle man who left this house Who held me tender, soft and true Was buried somewhere on that field And I'm in mourning, though you're here beside me now The screams still echo in my mind The faces never fade away You whisper " welcome home, my love But I was lost along the way You flinch when thunder breaks the sky You wake up screaming every night I reach for you but you retreat Into the shadows, from the light I'd trade the glory, trade the scars, just to have your old heart back Tell me what you saw out there Things I cannot share Let me heal your wounded soul Some wounds never make you whole I'm still here, I'm still your home But I will always be alone In this house of broken vows We're together, yet apart somehow They said you'd come back crowned in fire A hero forged by pain and steel I came back haunted, not inspired With scars no hands can ever heal You came back home, but not the same The war still burns behind your eyes I carry love wrapped up in shame Afraid to let it hear my cries I held the door, I kept the flame Believed your soul would find its way I crossed the world to earn your name But lost myself along the way Where is the man I used to know? Where is the love we used to show? The war has taken more than blood It took the heart I understood You wear his face, you speak his name But nothing ever feels the same A ghost came home from distant lands With empty eyes and bloodstained hands I crossed the mountains, crossed the sea But you left yourself in that valley I fought so hard to get back here But the man I loved Disappeared The soldier came home from the war But the man I knew Walks through that door no more I came back breathing But the man you loved Died on the battlefield