Sometimes, if you want to make a change

It comes with a price

Walk away, and you may be attacked

But stay, and you will surely die

For all those years I should have walked away

I pay the price now ′cause I chose to stay

Retribution

Retribution, ah

From a place of darkness

I observed your disease

As it slowly possessed me

Then to survive I had to live in silence

But the strength to walk away

Is the way that I was saved

Distance brought clarity beyond the

reach of your decay ('cay, ′cay)

There was a price to pay (a price to pay)

No other way but pain

(I) I lost everything

To finally be free

I would pay again (again)

Retribution

Retribution

I surrounded myself with men who called me brother

Only when it served their gain

But when I truly needed a friend

They were gone before a single word could be said

Truth never had a chance

'Cause I was judged by my past

But their verdict never changed what I had to do

What they call punishment was the cost of my escape

And I would pay it again to get away from them

No deeds unseen, no secrets kept

I paid in full with no regret

I was not saved (I was not saved)

By the path you gave (by the path you gave)

But by refusing to go

Where you led me (yeah)

(I) I lost everything

To finally be free

I would pay again

Retribution

(I) I lost everything

(To) to finally be free

I would pay again

Retribution

With no regret

Ah

If every bridge behind me still stood

I'd tear them down

And watch them burn

Watch them burn

Retribution

Let them take what they came to claim

Nothing could make me stay again

I lost everything

To finally be free

And I would pay again (′gain)

Retribution