I wrote this many years ago
Finally the music is ready for it.
Feedback very welcome
To Suffer Quietly
Standing in the hall with his sword and his shield
Trying to recall his glory in the field
He sees that peace is not all it is said to be
And he's learning now to suffer quietly
Friendship, sweat n' blood, there was a mortal fear
It was brotherly love and without a single tear
Oh, the angel of death you could hear her wings
Right now there seems no real need for anything
I could wish nothing more vile on my closest enemy
Than to turn back, recover his tracks and to suffer quietly
Slave to the mundane such as no other animal
Deluded he lays claim to the incompatible
Haunted by the facts, confronted in his shame
It's a life on the run through a carnival of pain
Coerced by the wily fools that he must serve
Do harm unto your neighbor, plunder the earth
N' With no other option than to guard his patch
And Orpheus , he gave word there's no looking back
There is no comfort to be found in abject misery
n' Forever is a very long time to while away cowardly
I could wish nothing more vile on my closest enemy
Than to turn back, recover his tracks and to suffer quietly
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Rightly