Deliverance - Sylvan

Many times you remember freedom

Happy days without fear and torment

Seven years on this ship of demons

Human beasts, men indeed — that’s hard to believe

Catching and imprisoning you

Abusing and degrading you

No farewell, no goodbye

Passing days, passing life

Day by day you’re rowing through the endless sea

And faces all around you staring hopeless at the ground

Day by day your masters heading for a new course

And every day you’re wishing your slavery comes to an end

Seven years full of pain and torture

Heavy chains ‘round your arms to hold you

Damn the day they’d arrived in your port

Searched men to turn them into slaves

Strokes of grief and misery

I can’t believe — what I see

Nights of cries, hope to die

Bloody streams

Don’t let you dream

Day by day you’re rowing through the endless sea

And battle follows battle but you are still a slave

The meaning of your sad life and master of your mind

Is the unkind rhythm of a ruthless funeral drum

Day by day, endless fights

Night by night, hopeless cries

Gloomy light, hungry eyes

Creeping time, fading life

Whispering, restlessness

Bewilderment, presentiment

Sails on the horizon excitement on board

Is this deliverance?

Are we now free?

Is this deliverance?

I’m coming back home

Lost what I have known

A stranger in your hometown, no friends

Still a slave of our past, no welcome

I’m coming back home

Lost what I have known

Travelling through dark streets

Memories of good old times now erased

You’re undone

I’m coming back home