Searching for a reason
Another purpose to find
I've sailed the seas
Fought my many demons
I've looked to gods in the skies
I've stood in hell
Where many had to suffer
I stared the devil in the eyes
Walked many roads
To witness ancient idols
And found the great Gates of fire
Had many stones
Question my conviction
Gave on these reason to rise?
The hate I'm searching
For bones he can borrow
while eyes gift in the night?
Final plight
Live again
All roads end
I'll be coming home
Tend your light
Cause on this night
I'll be coming home
Escape the hell
Of capitulated mortals
And drink the blood of a king
A desert rain
has washed away direction
Had angels looking after me
So it seems
Live again
All roads end
I'll be coming home
Tend your light
Cause on this night
I'll be coming home
My story ends
Not far from where it started
My weary limbs have grown old
I've seen the world
Through the eyes of a known man
Home is where the heart is
I've been told
So I go
Live again
All roads end
I'll be coming home
Tend your light
Cause on this night
I'll be coming home
I'm coming home"
Coming Home - Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King
The song dosn't follow a meter pattern. It's not pentameter, nor tetrameter, but it changes in every verse. The rhyme is free in most part of the song, but in the chorus. "again, sin, light, night"
The meaning under the lyrics is a man after the war, that have seen horrible things, and now he is asking for another chance to go home again and later, when he is old, he remembers what he did and how he felt.
The clues that let us identify he saw horrible things during the war are: The second and third stanzas I've stood in hell
Where many had to suffer
I stared the devil in the eyes
Walked many roads
To witness ancient idols
And found the great Gates of fire"
He stood in a place as painful as hell, he saw the most evil thing straight through. Was lost, and when he found a way, he found that he was in hell.
The comparisons he uses, comparing devil and hell to he horrors of a war, gives us a image on our head about the atrocity lived by the story teller. Also, the enjambment on "A desert rain
has washed away direction" Is a way of enlarging the time in which he was on this "desert".
In "And drink the blood of a king" the sound "k" on "drink" and "king" make an consonancy effect.
"I've sailed the seas" Again, the sound "s" on "sailed" and "seas" conform another alliteration.
The repetition on "I'll be coming home" could mean the representation on the time he spent on the trip towards home.
Finally, My weary limbs have grown old suggests that the story teller is already old, and that this happened long ago. This final synecdoche refers to his limbs to refer to himself, as an old and used man.
