ODYSSEUS

👉如果喜歡，請訂閱【曉牧聽音樂】，每周日更新，若能給五星好評，是對我最大的支持，感謝您，祝您平安順遂。 【ODYSSEUS】 I once knelt before the gods above Believing every sacred word was love Believing every boundary drawn Had its reason, had its time, then gone   I once believed in black and white Believed that fate would hold its line Until that night beyond the gate I called a lie a righteous fate I never raised a sword I never cried for war I only let a wooden horse Walk quietly through the door And while the city cheered For victory won that night No one saw the ancient law Beginning to lose its light **For those who trust the law the most Know best how to break it down I traded one beautiful lie For the greatest victory in town But I spent the rest of my life Paying for what I had done If justice permits one lie to live Who decides when the lying is done?** I once protected sacred vows Written by the gods themselves But in the end I became the first To break the oath I swore to them That night the gates swung open wide Not by fire, nor by the sword But by trust we left inside We welcomed death through every door I said it was for victory I said it was for what was right But when a lie is dressed in beauty Even I believed it by the night One exception One betrayal And suddenly the law grew frail Give it just one perfect answer And sin can wear a holy veil **For those who trust the law the most Know best how to break it down I traded one beautiful lie For the greatest victory in town But I spent the rest of my life Paying for what I had done If justice permits one lie to live Who decides when the lying is done?** I once protected sacred vows Written by the gods above Yet I became the very first To turn betrayal into love The gods said nothing The sea gave no reply Only the wind carried that fire Across a thousand years of sky And now I finally understand The deepest punishment isn't death It's turning back toward home someday And finding your own shadow there **For those who trust the law the most May become the law's greatest enemy I won the war with wisdom But lost the war inside of me If justice permits one lie to live Then the world will learn to betray I once believed the gods would guard us But I carved the first crack into their way** So I walked along a thousand shores Let the wind remember what I'd won The city fell The gods remained But I was still the guilty one I once believed the law would never bend Until I changed the language of its end And now I know the cruelest prophecy Fate could ever write for me Is not that you broke your sacred vow But that someday, you would become the reason someone else learned how to break theirs. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn