The Tower

Withered flowers hem my toilsome way

The armies of spring defeated long ago

Where hopeful green once covered the land

Now decay and death rule everywhere

Shaggy crows, plaguing the soil, await the kingdom of frost

Grey and dirty the day laments, and a dust-hidden sunset blurs the sky

Through valleys of shadow, over hills of forlorn beauty

I drive my feet to a tower, where the night shall bring oblivion

(lead - Hilbert)

The highest mountains provoking

Black stone forms a needle

Piercing the clouds at the horizon

It marks my quests solution

Reaching the massive gate, darkness takes the land

With the moon racing the heavens, behind wild and hoary fog

Looking down from the spire

I see the world beneath my feet

In the safety of this place

My present to mankind reveals

All human eager firestorms, the foul stench of lost battles

Vast pains and bitter grief, for only one now to consume

I enlighten the fields below, thunder roars throughout the plane

Gathering the ancient demons, sorrows last tunes now begin

Calling the mighty forces

Of this buildings secret powers

A breach to the inner core

Opens as a voracious door

(lead - Hilbert)

With a black holes gravity

It inhales the outer tragedy

Gateways to exterminate

What we've done in our hate

My energy exhausted

My mind totally frosted

With all my memories erased

Here, as a guard I stay defaced