Guardians of the Vault

Deep beneath the scorched earth lies the silence
A labyrinth carved when dragons ruled the sky
After the First Cataclysm burned the ages
Only ashes remained, and a desperate cry
Shelves of stone hold every whispered secret
Every scroll, every name the world forgot
They carried the flame when humanity faltered
Locked it away before the final rot

Millennia pass, yet the candles still burn
Watching over words the dead never learned

The Great Vault of History, buried below
Keeper of echoes the free winds never know
We lost it all once in fire and in pain
Almost lost it twice, never again
Never again

Antony Leppra walks the endless hallways
Eyes like winters that never see the dawn
Older than the granite, older than the sorrow
He was here before the first stone was drawn
They whisper he's immortal, cursed and unbroken
Carries diseases no mortal could survive
Made a bargain once, and the bargain devoured him
Still he guards the truth, still he's alive

Few words escape those tired, haunted lips
But when they do, the darkness grips

The Great Vault of History, buried below
Keeper of echoes the free winds never know
We lost it all once in fire and in pain
Almost lost it twice, never again
Never again

On quiet nights he speaks to a shadow-vampire
Paranoid friend with a gun made of silver and fear
Two broken souls trading ghosts in the darkness
Two lonely watchers, keeping the end far from here
He stares through the ages, through victories and graves
And softly he murmurs the vow that he saves

We lost everything once
Almost lost everything twice
And I swear on these bones and these crumbling tomes
There will never be a third time

The Great Vault of History, standing so tall
Last bastion of memory, answering the call
We lost it all once in fire and in pain
Almost lost it twice, but never again
Never again
Never, again

Antony Leppra still walks those halls of stone
Carrying sadness no history book has shown
Guarding tomorrow, from yesterday's fall
The Great Vault of History
Will never fall