Shape of my Soul

I'm empty, cold and dark within
Vessel of something nowhere to begin
I am alive but don't you know
Pain and suffering is the shape of my soul

I am lonely, on a broken road
Cracks in the pavement, nowhere to go
I was a miner in a cave of despair
The forest is closing and I ain't going nowhere

Footsteps are falling, on darkened path
Horizons endless, the tiring graft
Will I e'er reach you, my eternal goal
Pain and suffering, the shape of my soul

I long to feel you, cementing my heart
Making me whole and, never apart
I am but one, I cannot compete
But without you I am incomplete

I used to be silent, the world was a smile
World left me empty, all of awhile
Now the road is long, a heart black as coal
Pain and suffering, the shape of my soul