Lifespan

For some it lasts for seconds

For some a thousand years

Time's a given, and time we take

There lies a line of all our fears

For some it's just a minute

For others the same's a hundred days

Some old survive, or young will die

And all who live can not decide...

How many days are given

As a predetermined guarantee

We think we'll live forever

By the reward of our better deeds

Man writes of his denial

And many praise of what could be

The animals are given

The answer of true fate that we choose not so see

End to an end is our own lifespan

Our only one since time began

Imprint of our mold thus soon destroyed

Then is the fall of the hourglass sand

Hold true to your thoughts and your memories burned

In your mind remain till the call of your last day

Truth is the song, the finite dance

End to an end is our own lifespan

I don't believe in heaven

Or hell or afterlife

From book to truth, is dust to dust

And I will not reincarnate

I'm terrified of dying

I now know why the prey do run

For once it takes for all to end

The first time in my life I see...

How few the days are given

And knowing of just how they'll be

Nothing lives forever

The only thing that time will see

I've lost my taught denial

And live the days given to me

My life is slowly ending

The fact of fate in time I've now chosen to see

End to an end is our own lifespan

Our only one since time began

Shattering glass and the pattern it holds

No other life can repeat my soul

Dead is the dead of the living mind

Now random waves that escape all lifekind

Truth is the song, the finite dance

End to an end is our own lifespan

See...all that life can be

Let it be...all that you can see

Come and see...all that is not seen

Let it be...all that you have seen

For when your own life dies

In a flash memories in vain erase

And wash away

Beware the afterlife lie

Never hear, never feel the cries and pain of those

Still alive

Who still mourn

Solo

What once I thought was evil

Is now a means just to survive

The drive that makes me human

Is the love of life I live another day alive

End to an end is our own lifespan

Our only one since time began

Fear the day when our blood runs cold

The only last truth we all behold

True paradise is the air we breathe

The knowledge we teach, the pleasure we feed

Truth is the song, the finite dance

End to an end is our own lifespan

Born into living life alive

Dying to stay alive in life

See...all that life can be

Let it be...all that you can see

Come and see...all that is not seen

Let it be...all that you have seen

End to an end is our only lifespan