Cast to Walk the Star of Sorrow Lyrics

The Star of Sorrow
A prison for souls to dwell
A promise of exemption above
Hinterlands of servitude below

Crown of creation
Climbing a ladder made of human limbs
Overcrowded coffles of souls
Lined up towards furnace

The curse of treacherous freedom
The shackles of obligatory toil
Cast to walk the Star of Sorrow
Surmounted by evils of the world

Looking up into desolate heights
Feet at the rock bottom of souls
And above that very abyss
Even a greater abyss looks back

Screams of horror resounding
Throughout the bottom of the pit
As the bottom of that very pit
Cracks open only to reveal
A chasm even deeper
Than the one before
That lies below
Abysmal and formidable

Each passed torch
Bears a flame
Burning weaker
Than the one before

As thoughts silently lay to rest
Upon resentment and upon pity
Cast to walk the Star of Sorrow
Surmounted humanity

Truth shall live on
In the hearts of those laid to rest
True immortality will never settle
For a life so mirthlessly restricted
For its purpose is to walk
Through and beyond
The doors of death