Power and Glory Lyrics

I made myself a promise

I would live without regret

And that's a promise

I know I could have never kept

I walk a well-worn path

Trod by others more bold than I 

More brave, more cold

More worldly wise

They knew where there were going

Westward to a dark horizon far

Across bones and terror

They would bear the scars

And I would sit and wonder

At their adventures and their pain

Their hard-fought victories

Their valor, their great names

They did it for the power

They did it for the glory

Their finest hour

This is their story

I would be the one at home alone

While they around the camp

With cups of dark wine and grim smiles

Told true tales lit by a fading lamp

The lies would come much later

In the songs we all would sing

Of these ones chosen by the gods

To deliver us our reckoning

They did it for the power

They did it for the glory

Their finest hour

This is their story

For the power

For the glory

A finest hour

This is their story