the final stroke

• iluvatar'ın children albümünün kapanış parçası... albümdeki favorim olan 12:30 dakikalık parçada vokal yer yer fish'i o kadar andırıyor ki fish'in solo albümlerinden birini dinliyor zannediyor insan... çok güzel parça bu ya... olmuş arkadaşlar, bu albüm olmuş...
  
  lyrics - glenn mclaughlin
  
  thousands have yet to find it.
  what it was, i still don't know.
  many had called to grace my work.
  who'd have thought my gallery would steal the show?
  
  diaries on canvas.
  would they reveal my darker side?
  and hanging upon these walls,
  the façade i'd left to hide.
  
  forced into the limelight,
  a cancerous thought i'd ran from for years.
  worried sick my family's fate,
  embellished everything i'd held in dear.
  from my room i splashed violence,
  and colors meshed in moods.
  a wet brush choreographed my dreams.
  a medium only i could find to groom.
  
  dusting webs from my frames.
  could they read inside my mind?
  could i hide behind these walls?
  they think i've answered life's questions,
  i'd broken through it all...
  
  the townspeople they stood and cheered,
  as i moved through the main street
  in a carriage pulled by the horse of lords.
  my offering sheathed in drapes of gold.
  the king peered down and stared
  at my greeting, shivering informal.
  what i had carried was not just a sweep
  of the brush,
  but a vision the king
  himself had held.
  
  the doctor's messenger held on
  to a note clutched in his hand.
  was it wrong to live in highness?
  greed was not a life prioritized.
  this fever of scarlet,
  washed colors from my eyes...
  
  to this day the world will hold
  in its heart the memory
  of a man pushed by the right to wish
  what many grant themselves each day.
  look close and you will feel
  the emotion of this mortal
  who in his final moments of sight
  had canvassed a vision of life.