Departure

One year before the day she swore to me she knew exactly how this would end
 You left them once before
 And now you've found a reason to finish what you've started
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 The forfeit of a barren path, this is a death march, an escape from it all
 The final defiant act of a broken man
 A losing struggle now an absence embraced
 Guilt draped like a cross around your neck
 Too proud to face the burden you'll become
 Words scrawled across a page
 Close the door and leave it all behind
 A father, a son, you were known by many names
 Will they be remembered as your breathing departs?
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 A funeral call to those who morn this figure withered by the rain
 The skies grey, downpour above his plot of freshly carved earth
 A fitting epitaph if ever there was
 The shot rang out, echoes shattered off the wall
 The shot rang out, the shot rang out
 Echoes shattered off the wall, the shot rang out
 And to this day I still grieve for her
 Now haunted forever by that sound