Ronnie K. Whitlock - Unknown lyrics

It's Unknown, what the ink now shows That my mind's gone cold, or so I'm told That this beat's too much for me, that the flow is under me So why don't you cover me, but you'll never discover me I'm hidden in the shadows of this darkened planet I'm living in the heart of a ruthless bandit The bandit's heart is inside me And my own conscience stands out beside me It whispers that I ain't doing what's right It's telling me to stand up for what's right I might as well be paralyzed from the waist down; it's a waste, now That after all I've done, I still don't know how To find the words for what I need said To get this message outside of my head To show the love that I've held for so long But I'm hanging on the edge and I can't hold on An infamous way that the dusk begins The darkest way that the night begins to end I haven't done my contribution; I guess it's a sin To begin with a grin and end with a knife in My chest but the pain's like the rest Like a crest that says that I should take a rest From the world that we know, you know it goes just to show That it's cold and lonely when you have to be alone In spite of the curse, I find a cure To a reason that everyone's fighting for They're fighting for peace, but it just doesn't add up And the battle's coming here so we better stack up I'm tired the world's insane disagreement I'm tired of the planet's unfair treatment Why is kindness so infrequent Even when the fault occurred so recent I wake up every morning to the sound of war To the beating of hearts and the closing of doors To the end of time, to when it's time to end To when it's time to start new, all over again When every single day is supposed to be a different life And every single moon is supposed to be a different night And every single wrong still can't make a right When a child can't swim and the tide's getting high Every single day is just another shade of gray But there's way more than fifty with the brush I paint away When the God up above won't let you stay alive ‘Cause heroes get remembered, but legends never die I don't wanna' be another twig in the timber I wanna' be someone that you want to remember The flame shines bright but the words shine brighter This is your inside look at the last outsider I walk down this barren path all by myself, on my own Even the Lone Wolf gets lonely when it's lost its way home But the sound of its cries can't make up for the times When my own cries watered the sands of time And the lullaby she sings, to her daughter of three And the prayers she says, so that the peace will keep When the spirit wakes, and the blood it takes To end the war that came from guilt and shame The fire of the lake to the water of the sky The gray of the moon and the rise of the tide The pen on the paper won't make the mark Only love can tear a true heart apart This is the ocean where I drowned in despair The water's cold, but not as cold as the air When you sink to the bottom, let it be known That you reached the abyss of the edge of the Unknown