{"sf1_id":1012348,"sf2_id":"3egr4Y31","title":"The Harrowing Years","author":"Anika Mistwalker","words":196,"posted_at":"2016-05-26T07:53:00.000Z","tags":["Metal","Music"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1012348-the-harrowing-years","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/3egr4Y31","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/65/fc/65fc5a67-c0db-4716-88d1-60752677fa69","description":"Credit for these lyrics go to Insomnium, from their album Across the Dark.","content":"This I have learnt:  \nWorld forces all of us down  \nThe fleeing years bend our backs  \nLove but smears our hearts  \n  \nHere I now lie still like a broken bow  \nSoul sullen and rigid with the will to die  \nSighing after the days long since gone  \nCursing every step on this ill-fated trail  \n  \n\"In vain I try to forget - In vain I try to forgive  \nBlack bird from evening sky - raven from heaths of night  \nCome and take my cares - carry away the grief  \nBereave me of my woes - rend off these earthly throes  \nFly them to deepest lakes - to the starlit shores\"  \n  \nThis I have learnt:  \nEven the sweetest wine turns to sour  \nWe work our fingers to the bone  \nAll our efforts of no avail  \n  \nHere we all are but troubled guests  \nOn darkling earth  \nLost echoes that pine away  \nInto the dusk  \nNothing more than the wind to rely on  \nNothing more than the death  \nto comfort us in the end  \n  \nThis I have heard:  \nAll ends in serene sleep  \nAll these sorrows are washed away  \nAs we lapse into the night  \n  \nBut I know it's a lie\n\n  \n  \n\n"}