A Handful Of Ashes

from A Handful Of Ashes by Greg Segal

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A HANDFUL OF ASHES

I have been on a journey
I have come back to tell
I have brought back the gold
But now beyond the spell

I look down and I see
In my hand mocking me
Only nothing and dreams
And a handful of ashes

How I bled for the insight
How I strove to excel
How I thought I’d found knowledge
But now beyond the spell

I look down and I see
In my hand mocking me
Only nothing and dreams
And a handful of ashes

Now I’m older and cautious
I look back very far
I remember the process
All the ecstatic scars

And I see it has value
And it does have a place
Maybe not how you wanted
But that’s not a mistake

The mistakes come with dogma
And no room for dissent
Metaphors crowned as fact
Steal away innocents

Who will not be so pure
As they live for the day
They discover a leash
They will then hand away

And those who will come through
With no master or chains
Will find in the end
Small respect for their pains

No one waits at the threshold
Celebrating return
As you look for receivers
The treasure has turned

(instr. break)

Now back in a world
Where to win is to follow
Mysteries preordained
Victories proudly hollow

There is no point to tell
What will not be believed
And no way to express
Dreams that can’t be relieved

You are nothing and no one
You’ve been outside for years
There is no point pretending
You mean anything here

There’s an alley for heroes
There’s the ground for the lame
And no honest intent
Can be free of the game

I look down and I see
In my hand mocking me
Only nothing and dreams
And a handful of ashes

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from A Handful Of Ashes, released March 23, 2015

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