In a saddened gaze I watch the light fade slow What once was warmth Is now only the shadow of my soul I fade from existence With nothing left to praise Each breath, a burden uninvited Each dawn, another grave Oh, this beauty they forged in lies A fragile mask for endless pain They told us to love our torment And called our shackles grace They filled our minds with holy delusion Painted heaven as our cage A kind God to calm our wounds And fear to feed our chains Every day a new despair is born We never asked to dream again We were forced to exist Condemned to believe Pain was called salvation Guilt, the proof of love We knelt before our captors Believing we were free above In the end, we are deceived by faith Our prayers, echoes of fear Belief, the price of obedience And fear, the crown they wear In this saddened gaze I fall My hope dissolved, my heart undone The end was never death itself But what we called salvation