Sonata Arctica - Caleb lyrics

"There is a man in this world
Who has never smiled
You may know his tragedy
The later years, by heart in the beginning
There was a mother, father and a child
A troubled little silent boy
Whose life they were to destroy
Known to us from this day
On like his father, Caleb"
His mother came up with such a clever way to
Save the day with a little white lie
He thinks he missed the point back then
But now he's grown to understand it
In a way

"Father said "I'm sorry" only once
As I remember" "The words weren't meant to
Hurt, only destroy you, my stupid son"
One person can make a difference, sometimes
Just turn his head when the kid is
Still and has a weak neck

Smiled at his funeral, "happy you're dead"

All his solutions, it seemed
Were only problems in disguise
Glueing on his drinkin' face
Got ready to erase another day

Mother was yet confident, although
They had it tight, taught her son
At the end of every tunnel's a little light
It wasn't a lie, it was her hope
That everything would be fine one day
"He can fulfill his every dream
I'm happy as long as he's not"

"I hate it and fear can't face it
The child is not right
He's my greatest shame"

Go out, create thunder, and stand right under
That old apple tree
Where dead snakes let him feed on those

Lost hopes, all those kind words
Could hurt him even more, now
Somehow, lost one more way back home
Out on the lake, he rows towards a
Monster he should've been running away from
Years ago
The past had made him blind to the way he'd
Turned the pain into a way of life

Followed his father, tucked him in
Caleb knows the trade
He's the portrait of a man his
Mother drew to hate forever
She was a beast, a deadly saint
Wrong in many ways
Wanted to keep up the charade
Until the end waltzing together

Over the hills, under the sea
Fighting the will, whole Universe
Why does a man driving a hearse
Live in fear, Gift and a Curse

Taking 'em out, taking 'em all
Shooting the wall, over and out
When nothing moves, all's well
A decision he can find a way to live with

And dried up flowers are so beautiful
And it applies to all things living, and dead
For that I serve my time in my suite in Hell

"Now I ring the bell to tell the world
I'm ready when they bring out the soon
To be dead against the wall " oo oo ooo
This necessary evil has no heart ooo oo ooo
Flowers and people he will now enlace
A price he must pay serving a cold
Whatevergod