There're many songs and many lines, but this is comes to mind this morning as I post to this thread:

We'll hoist a hand
Becalmed upon a troubled sea
"Make haste your funeral," cries the Valkyrie

We'll hoist a hand
Or drown amidst a stormy sea
"Here lies a coffin," cries the cemetery, it calls to me

And all for nothing quite in vain was hope forever tossed
No thoughts explained, no moments gained, no hope forever lost
One moment's space, one moment's final fall from grace
Burnt by fire, blind in sight, lost in ire

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