As I Walk Along
As I walk along the road to heaven
I stop to pause and think
Of all those times
Sadness and pain
Glory and joy
When did they ever happen?
Glory and joy
When I was a small, innocent child
Unaware of the world's guilt
Sadness and pain
When I was older
When I knew more than the world will and has ever known
When I knew the Yeerks
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I . . . fought against them
But we were losing
And by some miraculous twist of fate
We won
Yet we lost much in the winning
We lost our childhood
Our ability to laugh in glee
To enjoy the world the way we should
Not knowing, or caring, of what lay underneath
To trust unquestioningly
Without a second glance
We lost and won
For the price of one
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And now I stop to ask myself
What have I done in my life?
I . . . died
When I was but a child
I was a child
Never having a chance to enjoy life
Life was anything but sweet for me
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As I walk along the road to heaven
I stop and look below
I see the others grieving for me
Yet still
I feel none
For what the war has done for me
Is to turn my heart into stone
So now not a drop of emotion can get out
Trapped between the cracks of stone
Perhaps one day I will get my own heart back
Perhaps,
One day,
I will not
Yet now,
It is too late
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As I walk along the road to heaven
I stop to say,
"What have I done?"
I gave up my life
The highest price
Just to win, for once
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