It must have been a bitch while I was gone I'm sorry to have taken so long You'll reacquaint yourself with my style All this time you put up a fear For a hundred thousand years You mind if I sit down for a while Well, how could you have waited so long

Been so long (so long, so long) You've been so long Been putting out fire (been so long, so long, so long) See these eyes so green I can stare for a thousand years It's been so long And I've been putting out the fire with gasoline Just be still with me

See these eyes so green I can stare for a thousand years Well it's been so long It's been so long Just be still with me I've been putting out fire (it's been so long, so long, so long) Colder than the moon And I've been putting out the fire with gasoline

None of thy empty gods, shall ever stand above me My awareness, catalyst, of godhate I have spawned Mightiest Self! Cast out of Thy Elysium With blood of Nazarene I write the story of man Two thousand years Is nothing though it has been enough Come forth

Amazing Grace! Oh, but now, now I'm found Was blind, oh, but now I see Oh, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost When we've been there Ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun

Amazing grace, oh how sweet the sound I was blind, but now I see That saved a wreck like me I once was lost, though now I'm found When we've been there ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise Then when, when

He hung on the windswept world tree Whose roots no one knows For nine whole days he hung there pierced By Gugnir, his spear Swimming in pain he peered into the depths And cried out in agony Reaching out he grasped the runes Before falling back from the

He opens his eyes, falls in love at first sight With the girl in the doorway What beautiful lines, how full of life After thousands of years what a face to wake up to He holds back a sigh as she touches his arm She dusts off the bed where till now he's

You're just a little bit out of my limit Its been two years now?? And in my mind now I've been over this a thousand times But its almost over lets start over 'Cause I never wanna be that guy No more having to chase to win that prize Back in high school

Take my scars Through hands of God I found a better way To break the walls It's been around for a thousand years And it'll be here for plenty more It is the face hidden in disgrace That has become now an open sore It is a false messiah