A soul built a fortress
For the souls he knew and loved
One of them was fearless
One of them above

Above all the nagging
Asking to be saved
Breathing water gagging
On what the anger gave

Surely the man was safe
In his fortress with his souls
Digging his own grave
He surely was the fool

There was a morbid growth
Living deep within
Always fighting drove
His thoughts to be so grim

He had no small conception
Knowing small perception
That the souls he knew so true
There in his fortress slew

Each other for a bite
Fighting for their right
Was this the real pattern
Of their great concern?

YOU built this fortress
It is you who is to blame
How are you so thoughtless
Now drown there in your shame!

For no matter how protection
Kept them from the feared
They had not small projection
Of where the ship was steered

Looming forward **
To death at a row!
We are together now
Safe oh safe somehow

Safe from all without
This fortress tall and stout
But I say you to right now
The truth is but a cloud

In the stormy sky
That is the deadly lie
There is no love within
Not with those the kin

But always more to ask
Beat me to the task
He built our fortress yes
Let's put it to the test

And as the beast then grew
Swallowing the truth
Eating souls of children
Nothing more to fill them

The sight that he then had
To see his kin so clad
Blood dripping from the teeth
Hungry still for souls to eat

Subjects to a boy, just a little man
Objects to the toy, bones drawn in the sand
There is no more to take
When you're toy does break

And then does fast rebuild
Forever to be filled
And the boy then walked away
Now a stranger to the fray

And all he can say
"They WILL be free someday."