A Trace of Blood

A Trace of Blood - Pain of Salvation

Touching ground

Going home to those I miss

Safe and sound

Weeks of exile turn to bliss

But there's something in her voice

When she is calling me

A trace of blood to lead me

Through roads of agony

With blood taste in my mouth

And clouds before my eyes

I kneel beside the bed

Where my bleeding dryad lies

Three young souls in misery

Hitting ground

Nausea wakes me up at dawn

Hopes are found

Dissected turned and then withdrawn

A chair of steel and wire

Her legs are open wide

Helpless in myself

I stand there cold beside

The doctors stay away

Leave us with this dismay

To see the colors of a miracle

Fade and turn to gray

Then a cry and rivers of blood

Flow so sadly bringing you

Our dreams pour into a cold tray

Two young souls in misery

Missing you

I never knew your name but I will miss you just the same

I was to live for you

I lost the will to live at all the day you came

It'll never be the same but I will love you just the same

You were to be the first how wonderful

Now I will always fear to hope again

The irony

Of seeing me whispering through her skin

So joyfully

To our child there deep within

Or of when she called to me

To tell me cheerfully

That she had seen your shape

On a hospital screen

And of nurses being concerned

That you never moved or turned

Too late we see the warnings

Too late we learn

I never saw your face and now you're gone without a trace

Except the trace of blood that's deeply scarred into my eyes

To fill your place

It'll never be the same but I will love you just the same

I was prepared to be your father

How can I ever prepare for that again

Still I follow that trace of blood

Always leading back to you

Hollow years of damming that flood

Two young souls in misery

Missing you

Missing you