The Harrowing Years Lyrics - Across The Dark - Insomnium

This I have learnt: 

World forces all of us down 

the fleeing years bend our backs 

love but smears our hearts 

Here I now lie still like a broken bow 

soul sullen and rigid 

with the will to die 

sighing after the days long since gone 

cursing every step on this ill-fated trail 

"In vain I try (to forget) - In vain I try to (to forgive) 

Black bird from evening sky - Raven from heaths of night 

come and take my cares - carry away the grief 

bereave me of my new woes - rend off these earthly throes 

fly them to deepest lakes - to the starlit shores" 

This I have learnt: 

even the sweetest wine turns sour 

we work our fingers to the bone 

all our efforts of no avail 

Here we all are but troubled guests 

on darkling earth 

lost echoes that pine away 

into the dusk 

nothing more than the wind to rely on 

nothing more than the death 

to comfort us in the end 

This I have heard: 

all ends in serene sleep 

all these sorrows are washed away 

as we lapse into the night 

But I know it`s a lie