Dirt Between My Toes

Dust owns the streets where blood used to flow
What became of the pain and joy we used to know?
Now lost in time and remembered for generations
Now dead and lifeless of all known sensations

Majestic and bright like a new-born smile
I survey over all I command, it's been more than a while
Since the Lion's roar and the Gladiators scream
Lives laid down, life and death nothing in between

Everything's gone but the paupers and their loads
Since they've gone it's just dirt between my toes
Was I a Father? maybe a Son?
What have I left and what have I done?
This place of nothing gave it all to me
It's all so empty now, I can see what's left of me
With a crosscut smile and old anger in my heart
I dream I could go back, right to the start

I'm happy here just leave me be
Naked with nothing to prove here nothing to fear
I did what I did, I did what I could
They just didn't like it, I was misunderstood

Everything's gone but the paupers and their loads
Since they've gone it's just dirt between my toes
Boy or a girl a woman or a man
I was honest and true you knew where to stand

Everything to gain and nothing to lose
I refuse to be judged until you've walked in my shoes
I did it for you, i did it for me
One day you will care enough to know it was me who set you free

Now I'm gone and I'm never coming back
I came and I conquered it all with this pack on my back
I've ruled the iron fist and been overthrown
What I did best I do on my own

Everything's gone but the paupers and their loads
Since they've been gone it's just dirt between my toes
But I've been here, and I've always been me
And that's the way it's always gonna be