Where have you gone and run to, where have you been   Ive been doing some hard thinking and ive been growing thin   Well I've slept in stalls and alleyways and broken princess hearts   Assassinating kings on Christmas day, I watch the world fall apart      Well I betrayed the world I save   The freedom to the ones I left behind    And I aint never going back   Empire, don't cry for me anymore      Now who have you gone and become, who are you now   Cause the home you left so easily is a memory now   I'm a stranger you have always known and never will forget   I'm the trigger on your trigger finger   I'm the only ride you got      I drank the wine, I parted seas and walked the mile   I betrayed you all with the promise I'd come back   Empire, dont talk to me anymore   When dust and ash will be all you are   Who will know that I was never really left for you      You hold me in your hearts   As you raise hell in my name   Dissect me, tear me apart   For all you know of me   All you know are names   All you know is pain   All you know is what you lost      Empire, dont cry for me anymore   When dust and ash will be all you are you can let go      One thousand armies, one grain of sand   One whispered prayer, wanna lend a hand   In black hawk fields of gold   When people shatter history   When people quiet the faith in me      The king that would never   Could never, ever   Show them all, be salvation