It feels as if standing again In the pouring rain As I let past's spirits gain Control over me And they speak so impatiently But all I see Is that I sacrificed myself For nothing May this be the last day or night Before I fade away with a final sigh My tired eyes have seen enough for a life So if the time has come to leave it all behind These wrinkled hands are not too lame To embrace freedom again You made me bear All these memories alone The void of the unborn son The pain that you generate Oh, God is it true that you watch Over us all? Did you weep or just laugh When seeing my people fall? Down by the river And high up in the skies In those deep valleys Where their tortured bodies lie Down by the river And high up in the skies In those deep valleys Where their tortured bodies lie Forgotten With every monolith that falls I feel the dying pulse In the vein Of my generation But all the voices I hear They seem so real Can they make me believe That you're here with me? (That you're still with me) Down by the river And high up in the skies In those bleak valleys where my Broken bones will dry Forgotten by all Abandoned by man To follow the call I'll resist While I have the strength As if ever thoughts could melt steel As if prison walls were to be torn by will As if ever time could heal the wounds Inside As if on the fateful paths I tread All friends and loves I've ever had Were still around and not lying dead Dead like stones