# The Harrowing Years

Author: Anika Mistwalker
Tags: Metal, Music

Credit for these lyrics go to Insomnium, from their album Across the Dark.

This I have learnt:  
World forces all of us down  
The fleeing years bend our backs  
Love but smears our hearts  
  
Here I now lie still like a broken bow  
Soul sullen and rigid with the will to die  
Sighing after the days long since gone  
Cursing every step on this ill-fated trail  
  
"In vain I try to forget - In vain I try to forgive  
Black bird from evening sky - raven from heaths of night  
Come and take my cares - carry away the grief  
Bereave me of my woes - rend off these earthly throes  
Fly them to deepest lakes - to the starlit shores"  
  
This I have learnt:  
Even the sweetest wine turns to sour  
We work our fingers to the bone  
All our efforts of no avail  
  
Here we all are but troubled guests  
On darkling earth  
Lost echoes that pine away  
Into the dusk  
Nothing more than the wind to rely on  
Nothing more than the death  
to comfort us in the end  
  
This I have heard:  
All ends in serene sleep  
All these sorrows are washed away  
As we lapse into the night  
  
But I know it's a lie

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/3egr4Y31