Of Death

Sifting through the ashes of a kingdom's crooked spine,
The scribes are drunk on vinegar, they’re re-writing the divine.
The kings are just comedians with blood upon their hands,
While statues turn to sand.
I see the clockwork logic of a battle-plan gone wrong,
The serpents sing a lullaby to those who march along,
A jester with a razor grins and whispers in the fray:
"Tomorrow's yesterday."

And the hourglass is cracking,
Every treaty, just a lie...
I can hear the planets laughing
As the final wave rolls by...

DEATH! WITH A CAPITAL "D"! "D"! "D"!
Scratching out the future and the memory!
DEATH! IN THE FIRMAMENT!
FIRMAMENT!
Oblivion is renting every tenement!

For the living and the dead,
The blood we bled,
The words we said,
Are just echoes in the head...
OF DEAAAATH!
OF DEAAAATH!
OF DEAAAATH!

The Pharaohs in their golden boats are sinking in the sand,
The astronauts are floating with a circuit in their hand.
The past and future merge into a single, screaming dot,
A memory... forgot.
The priests are counting rosaries for profit and for pride,
The hackers crack the code of God and find there's naught inside.
The universe is just a joke the void forgot to tell,
A tolling of the bell...

And the hourglass is bleeding,
Every savior, just a fake...
I can feel the cosmos seeding
All the nothing we can make...

DEATH! WITH A CAPITAL "D"! "D"! "D"!
Scratching out the future and the memory!
DEATH! IN THE FIRMAMENT!
FIRMAMENT!
Oblivion is renting every tenement!

For the living and the dead,
The blood we bled,
The words we said,
Are just echoes in the head...
OF DEAAAATH!
OF DEAAAATH!
OF DEAAAATH!

"Check the books... tally the score...
The ink is dry... there is no more.
The sword... the plague... the silent whim...
It all just folds... right back to Him...
Or nothing."

DEATH! (death!)
WITH A CAPITAL "D"! "D"! "D"!
Burning all the chapters you can't read!
DEATH! (death!)
IN THE ELECTRON STREAM!

Waking up the ghosts inside the fever dream!
For the living and the dead!
The words we said!
The blood we bled!
Are just echoes in the head...

OF DEATH... OF DEATH...
OF DEATH... OF DEATH...
The final breath.
OF DEAAAAAATH.