Prodigal Son

Prodigal Son is the eleventh of Kamelot's tenth album, Silverthorn. It's written by Thomas Youngblood, Sascha Paeth, Oliver Palotai and Tommy Karevik. It's actually a nine-minute song split into 3 parts. Alissa White-Gluz does the background clean vocals in Part 3. This song summarizes the story of Jolee, which is the concept of the album.

Part I: Funerale
Essence of beauty

Taken to soon

Princess of hope

Deep in our hearts you live on

Essence of goodness

Goddess of light

Give us the power

God gave us strength to live on

Essence of beauty

Taken too soon

Princess of hope

Deep in our hearts you live on

Essence of goodness

Goddess of light

Give us the power

God gave us strength

Give us the strength to live on

Part II: Burden of Guilt
(How could this happen

What have we done)

How could this happen?

Oh, what have we done?

Will our tears ever pay for our sin?

Mother forgive us

We need all your love

To fight and to carry the burden of shame

Hereby we swear that for as long as we live

We will not soil our name

The truth made of iron

Will see it with pain until death

Our secret remains

Until death our love remains

And in death our love re-framed

I need a way

But worlds unwind

Lovers in blood

Now divided in heart

Part III: The Journey
My grief and sorrow always trying

To repay

Behind the palisade

This is destined life

Music and the tears I hear you say

Through the walls

Turns to nightmares and there's no escape at all

Oh joyful childhood

You died so young

Every child follows blind

On the journey we call life

Learn it every day

Given love or given name

Determines everybody's fate in life

Be careful what you give

Stranger to love and affection

On the run

In search of shelter in the solitude of sin

A drifter in the dark

A soldier of the pain

A constant slave under the belt of misery

Oh joyful childhood

You died so young

Every child follows blind

On the journey we call life

Learn it every day

Given love or given name

Determines everybody's fate in life

Be careful what you give