Lyrics:

[Part I - Funerale: Tommy Karevik]
Essence of beauty
Taken to soon
Princess of hope
Deep in our hearts you live on

[Choir]
Essence of goodness
Goddess of life
Give us the power / Give us a reason
God give us strength to live on

[Tommy Karevik]
Essence of beauty
Taken to soon
Princess of hope
Deep in our hearts you live on
Essence of goodness
Goddess of life
Give us the power
God give us strength
Give us the strength to live on

[Part II - Burden of Shame]
(What have we done?)
How could this happen?
Of what have we done?
Will our tears ever pay for our sin?
Mother forgive us
We need all your love
To fight and to carry
The burden of shame

[(The Branding)]
Hereby we swear that
For as long as we live
We will not soil our name
The truth made of iron
Will seal it with pain
Until death our secret remains
Until death our love remains
And in death our love re-framed

[Part III - The Journey: Verse 1]
A minute away but worlds apart
Brothers in blood now divided in heart
By grief and sorrow one is striving
To repay
Behind the palisade he lives his destined life
The music and the tears are piercing
Through the walls
Turn to nightmares and there is no escape at all

[Chorus]
Oh joyful childhood
You died so young
Every child follows blind
On the journey we call life
Learning every day
(Learning with every step)
Given love or given hate
Determines everybody's fate in life
Be careful what you give

[Verse 2]
A stranger to love and affection
On the run
In search of shelter in the solitude of sin
A drifter in the dark
A soldier
Of the pain
A constant slave under the belt of misery

[Chorus]
Oh joyful childhood
You died so young
Every child follows blind
On the journey we call life
Learning every day
(Learning with every step)
Given love or given hate
Determines everybody's fate in life
Be careful what you give