Even The Walls Lyrics - A Time To Mourn - Paramaecium

Faded by the hands of time 

Faint echoes of my childhood dream 

The images of days gone by 

Are seldom what they seem 

The candlelight spells out my name 

The breeze from below leads the dance of the flame 

Suddenly no one recalls 

Yesterday's men have vacated the halls 

And they all stay away from the home of their youth 

And they all say they pray but pretend with the truth 

I know I once was like them, old in word and deed 

But my youth survived and revived 

The ravages of need 

Never has an open door 

Presented me itself to claim 

Even though the walls persist 

In singing out my name 

Even the walls know my name 

The candlelight flickers the dance of the flame 

Suddenly no one recalls 

All of my deeds are adorning the halls 

And the way that I've lived 

Makes the world that I've known 

And I know what I give I must give on my own 

For it seems each room holds the key 

To open other doors 

As I make my way through the house 

I'm finding more and more 

Folded years before this day 

The dust has found its chance to fall 

The note from one of loving thoughts 

Was never read at all 

Even the walls know my name 

The candlelight flickers the dance of the flame 

Suddenly no one recalls what they said 

Yesteryear's heroes are waking up dead 

And I owe my whole life to the name on the page 

And I look to my wife in the midst of my age 

We both have lived with the thought 

Of travelling afar 

For this house is old and our home 

Will find us where we are