As the ages pass us by They finding us reaching for a light In endless night Left to question who we are And if we’ll ever find a place In this life The mask is gone Three hundred years A tale untold They hide their fear Where has it gone? Where is the nation that I thought I knew? What do we know What is it really that we gain You’v e got a shadow on your grave A false constellation that you have made You’ve got a shadow on your grave The bells of time ring out for your name A grave, a nation So what is it that is left What is it that we built A monument To an idea, washed away A beaten tattered flag Raised in honor of a dream A memory Of what had never came to pass You’v e got a shadow on your grave A false constellation that you’ve made The bells of time ring out for your name You’ve got a shadow on your grave A grave, a nation, a shadow