[Awakening] - Ilmarinen

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Loosely arranged to the tune of Soldier by Ingrid Michaelson, although the chorus in particular is quite different.

She walks alone
     always alone
However thick the crowd
She walks
     her head held high
Always alone.

The things she's seen
     the things she's done
Never to speak aloud
These things
     she's seen and done
Are hers alone.

In the silence
     she feels the walls close in.
In the darkness
     she feels the grave close in.

CHORUS
There is no right or wrong
     This she's known from the start
There are only the truths
     And the lies in her heart
And the cracks through the core of her soul.


She seeks the end
     the end of life
She seeks the start of life
To live
     she seeks to die
To be renewed.

She takes her soul
     in her own hands
Her soul is hers alone
Her soul
     the road she walks
She makes anew.

Where will she go?
     None can know but her.
Where does this end?
     She's to say who'll learn.

CHORUS


She travels fast
     eyes on her prey
Her past is at her heels
Chasing
     a hand she'll choose
To guide her way.

Her will is strong
     she owns no fear
Greatness she will achieve
For good
     or ill or something
In between.

In the future
     They'll whisper her name.
When she is gone
     Her greatness will remain.

CHORUS


The road ahead
     is wreathed in shade
She walks a twilight path
In shade
     she forges on
Towards the end.

She knows the end
     is steeped in blood
When darkness stakes its claim
On her
     she will not falter
Will not bend.

In the shadows
     She knows what is to come.
In the firelight
     She sees her Kingdom Come.

CHORUS

Good and evil are tales
     Shifting firelight and shade
She can only find truth
     At the edge of the blade
That she drives to the core of her soul.

Through the cracks in the core of her soul.