Cursed

[Verse] I thought I knew my lot a life with tooth and nail I fought but when I met her I knew it could be better (what is this feeling) [Verse 2] we saw death and hell go 'round and yet we held our ground then she told me of our destiny (I feel my soul reeling) [Verse 3] then one day I awoke surrounded by ash and smoke my family, my love, my life, taken my will to live, shaken (something gnaws my mind) [Verse 4] Long and hard I searched the pain in my arm made me lurch a curse tainted the air but I would not submit to despair (Deliverance, I must find) [Verse 5] years later I would stumble upon a hero so humble I would share in his quest to find my own rest (lest I fall to darkness) [Verse 6] upon the demon's mount we found a monstrous count he presented an hourglass and the curse within me manifested at last (and become something else) [Verse 7] I'm surrounded now by dark it laughs at my struggles as a lark I feel pain and confusion as souls become dark infusion (it said "become my puppet") [Verse 8] Hell this is not for I still feel the rot I must escape these chains and end these pains ("serve me and sound my trumpet") [Verse 9] I hear him now, the hero true fighting my shade, a vile hue yet his years are too few there must be something I can do (fight, she whsipered, fight again) [Verse 10] I draw my sword, dark all 'round I spy red eyes, a familiar frown my mirror image, an evil visage the fight is even, I must end this demon (her face appeared, wet with rain) [Verse 11] we trade blows it's presence cold as snow I can only try as I may to pave the Hero's way (she says something, I can't hear) [Verse 12] I feel it's anger, frustration and rage I redouble my efforts and pray oh goddess of light, of life help me to continue to fight (and then she disappears) [Verse 13] the hero is losing ground a solution must be found I desperately try and try and then, sounds a cry (a child's plea) [Verse 14] a young girl yells, through tears finally, through the darkness, I peer "why do you bring misery?" "are you not the man who saved me?" (why could I not remember) [Verse 15] I had forgotten the evening in autumn after passing a girl on the road she was ambushed by rogues (brigands, cowards... humans) [Verse 16] in the woods, they numbered three I had hidden behind a tree they tied her with rope and drained her of hope so I drew my sword with intent (they never stood a chance) [Verse 17] with this memory I feel more clear the beast before me, filled with fear I ready my sword and finally look forward the monster's end is near (this is my will, my body, my mind) [Verse 18] our hearts steeled and wills aligned the hero fights body, and I the mind with a final shrill wail the shadow tucks tail (I can finally breathe) [Verse 19] this is not the end, it still lingers I can feels it's foul will in my fingers I look back at the hell it wrought too many dead, with guilt I'm fraught (with rage against the dark I seethe) [Verse 20] the hero approaches as I molder "this is not your burden alone to shoulder" I cannot fathom his benevolence but I will stop at nothing to be rid of this malevolence. then the words she spoke that night return clearly ("we shall face our destiny, fearlessly")