We used to care But things have changed Where joy should reign Painted lines on your face To grasp your gaze restrained So tranquil the outside rain
The city I am My alleys veins, my water nurture Nobody need stand on ceremony before my doors I am a home to you And to them Of ashes they come In sackcloth
Moral shadows dancing on these walls A surge of insight amidst the fall To know this commonwealth again The spectre growing ever tall And no creed remains
What is the nature of this? A standard always amorphic Strange, how easy to list: Routine tediously cyclic I don't know where I get it from I rely so
Sediment upon sediment Lapping like waves at my spine To linger in this fury You versus I Welcome opponent You versus I Negation in smothering grip
A Goliath so spasmodic Turn of events, Ominous, historic Safeguard a creed demonic Love of war and war for love Through this age The ranks of this disaffected
In this skeletal form, rupture skin and flesh Wake these eyes of bone to life In this skeletal form, rupture skin and flesh The ashes of the dead arise
I, author of strife Spread ashen wings Mad avian glare Sharpen both talon and break Simplify to Modify to Amplify to Carry them to war Heave, hordes
