This is a song I wrote while I was in college for my Minor project. It was fun arranging the instruments and hopefully some day I’ll record a better live version.
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How many roads must I walk down alone
Before they come to an end?
How many seas must I travel alone
Before I fall off the edge?
How many times will my hopes all be crushed
Before there's no hope at all?
How many tears will my life ever know
Before it comes to an end?
Before it comes to an end...
For memories
Are a double-edged sword
That cuts both ways like a knife
But where there is past
There is now and to come
For Hope's bright light to fill.
For Hope's bright light to fill...
How many times must we fight and die
Before evil lives no more?
How many times will we mourn the dead
Before no more tears we can shed?
How many times will the healing be spread
Before it runs out like wine?
How many lives can be lost in a day?
Will hope ever live again?
Will hope ever live again...
But hope always lives
In each choice that we make
And hope's light can save a soul
There is always a choice
Though it seems quite a lot
For just one person to bear
For just one person to bear...
How many times will I sit all alone
Watching my friends all around?
How many times will I sing all alone
With no one left to hear me?
How many times will the shadows fall
Before they consume my mind?
How many times must I watch and wait
When waiting is all I can do?
When waiting is all I can do...
For a friend always waits,
And a friend always cares
And friends will stay by your side
Watching and waiting
To pick you back up
Until the hurt is gone
Until the hurt is gone.