The Protomen - II a: Funeral For A Son lyrics
[The Protomen - II a: Funeral For A Son lyrics]
Trembling and calloused
Fingers that cradle his heavy head
Light watches the mob of
Cowards carry Protoman's scarred
Helmet - all that was left of the
Man Machine who would have been their savior
As the crowd marches somberly back -
Some to their homes, some to the makeshift
Grave where Protoman's helmet would remain
All to slavery - Light notices a
Tear streaming down the dorsum
Of his hand and feels a breathtaking
Weight in his chest what is
This? Frustration? Humiliation?
Hatred? Certainly, these
Are there too but no
This is more than that these emotions
Are his life he has
Lived with them for so long
That they no longer
Affect him over the years he has learned
To fight them, then ignore them
And finally channel them into his work, his
Creation, his machine, his son
So that was it the source of tears
And the pain that caused them
This time he had built more than
A machine he had sent more
Than a robot to battle he had
Sent a man, his own son
To do the impossible, to save those
Who could not be saved, to die
There was the hatred again, the rage, welling
Inside of him no more, he thought
As he tore down the tools
And parts that framed his
Apartment workshop never again
"Mankind deserves the
Hell that they have brought upon
Themselves" He smashed and cut, metal
Against metal, metal against flesh
In an effort to destroy his own
Means of creation he allowed the
Tears to pour from his cheeks
And mingle with the blood
Seeping from the cuts in his
Torn and battered hands
He had set out to use these hands to
Destroy his workshop but he now
Watched as they seemed
To be creating of their own accord pieces
Of machine from the floor were
Seized and fused they
Began to take form - the form of
Light's anger, the form of his guilt
The form of his grief, the form of his love
The form of a son
Years passed nothing changed the
Human race seemed
Weary but content to suffer under Dr
Wily and the robot army in whispers
They still spoke of Protoman eventually
Megaman would find out the truth
Dr light knew this
When Megaman was old enough
Light called him into the workshop
And began to explain