Childhood’s End

[Intro: Spoken]
"While I can't hold your hand, Son
I will have your back"

[Intro]
If a mountain stood in the way of my father
The mountain would move aside
A feat that wasn't passed down to me...

[Verse 1]
A boy with a crown
An ill-fitting one
People post-breakdown
How their souls have been tested
In these times, everyone
Is both judge and jury
And you still live in cages
Just with longer chains

[Pre-Chorus]
New world disorder
That's how we exist
New world disorder
We can't resist (Resist, resist)

[Chorus]
Dredge my heart
Of all the fear that I have inside
Minds, they forget
But the scars remember
Everything
No matter how much I've tried
You will reject
My attempts to be your rightful king

[Post-Chorus]
Your king

[Verse 2]
And I seem to make enemies
Faster than I make friends
I can't really find the remedy
Do we get the life that we deserve?

[Pre-Chorus]
New world disorder
That's how we exist
New world disorder
We can't resist

[Chorus]
Dredge my heart
Of all the fear that I have inside
Minds, they forget
But the scars remember
Everything
No matter how much I've tried
You will reject
My attempts to be your king

[Bridge 1]
Childhood's end
A sudden end

[Bridge 2]
I tried to burn away
My fear and anger
And how I prayed
It would hurt no longer
Imagine a king
Who fights his own battles

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
I prefer my demons stirred, not shaken
You can drown your pain
But it will learn to swim
Some people treat life like (it's) a disease
And I am one of them
I am one of them

[Refrain]
All the fear that I have inside...

[Chorus]
Dredge my heart
Of all the fear that I have inside
Minds, they forget
But the scars remember
Everything
No matter how much I've tried
You will reject
My attempts to be your rightful king

[Outro]
Your king