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My Tribute to Torment (lyrical spoilers)

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My Tribute to Torment (lyrical spoilers)

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Halfway through writing the lyrics to this song, I realized it was the same story as Torment, so I went all the way with it.

[url="http://www.archive.org/download/Nameless_665/Nameless.mp3"]Nameless.mp3[/url] (3.8 MB)

Lyrics:
I awoke in the mortuary
on a bed of stone for the dead
My name, my past, all my memories were lost
The caretaker says, I have never known you
No more than you have known yourself

There are names which are given, names which are earned,
Who's to say which is more real?
Do the names others call you determine your Identity?
Am I alive or dead or in-between
How many times have I woken here?
Maybe the real we has always been
Nameless

You bear many names which scar your flesh
and only serve to hide the wound
within your mind
Man of a Thousand Deaths
you are silvered glass which has cracked
and the shattered pieces
scattered across time

Lost and abandoned in the streets of the hive
where the stones of the city weep
The path I follow,
The clues I left behind
(because a vision softly creeping)
(left a seed while I was sleeping)

Once a miser, now a beggar
Once a killer, now a savior
Once a preacher, now a heretic
One who seeks answers
One who seeks blood
One who seeks oblivion
All enslaved to the path of the Nameless One

Which life, which choice, what difference did it make?
How many times have I walked this
circle of fate?
Contract of eternity
I turned my back on the war
But now the war has come for me

How can I atone for the evil I have done?
What can change the nature of a man?

Those I used and murdered,
who sacrificed themselves to me
through whose eyes now I see
The legacy I leave to you
To save you from the shades of me
For now you walk the path
of the Nameless One
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