If Only

Once
When I was but only a child
Carelessly drifting through
The journey of life with a view
Long before
The mist had me lost in the wild
Slowly, certainly blinding me
The colours still shined in me

We speak for the ones in the dark of the night
The ones who have lost paradise
The battered, the bruised, and the ones in the eye of the storm
For those in a search of a will to believe
The shackled, the slaves to the vice
The ones who have loved and the ones who have lost
It's gonna hurt you, my friend
But it is worth holding on 'til the end

Sometimes
The path that we take leaves a mark
And it will shape who we are
Make us endure when it's hard
So, you see
The light finds a way through the dark
Reaching out as it welcomes you
If only we follow through

We speak for the ones in the dark of the night
The ones who have lost paradise
The battered, the bruised, and the ones in the eye of the storm
For those in the search of a will to believe
The shackled, the slaves to the vice
The ones who have loved and the ones who have lost
It's gonna hurt you, my friend
But it is worth holding on 'til the end

We fight and the world carries on
We fall and the world carries on
We rise and the world carries on

We speak for the ones in the dark of the night
The ones who have lost paradise
The battered, the bruised, and the ones in the eye of the storm
For those in the search of a will to believe
The shackled, the slaves to the vice
The ones who have loved and the ones who have lost
It's gonna hurt you, I know
But it's worth holding on
It never leaves us the same
Yet we still find a way
Oh, it hurts you, my friend
But it is worth holding on 'til the end