Good day innkeeper, pour me a drink, I’m thirsty and I’d like to rest. Got weary of travelling, sick of the road, I long for a place to call home. I have been so many a place, And I’ve seen many things. But nothing can bring a jump to my heart, Numb as I am today.
Master innkeeper, kindhearted sir, You know not the burden I bear. It’s chased me ‘cross mountains, it’s chased me through dales, But I cannot run from it still. I can remember that bloody black day, As if it were minutes ago. Sunlit it was, yet night it still felt, A shroud that I cannot shed
Chorus: The shell of a man, in a prison-like state Far beyond asking where and why To live with a burden unable to share Is reason enough to die
Can you, my friend, comprehend, The malice that I have wrought? The dear only knows my intentions were good, Still my hands stained with blood. Well my eyes were so full of greed and of lust, I couldn’t see what was done. Now will you, Innkeeper, feed the one soul, That could not a many have fed?
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What has been done cannot be undone, It leaves a scar as you go. What has been seen cannot be unseen, Another thing that you know.
When I close my eyes I see them grieve, Thousands and thousands of them. I’ve fallen from grace, from riches to rags, Yet pity I do not deserve. Well innkeeper, sir, would you ever forgive, if it were up to you? And could you please give me a meal, And a bed to rest my head?