You Became I

I once knew that everything around me leapt for you

And I spoke with fiery tongue of heavens fall

And of your kingdom come

The words I was saying were leaving with ease but countered

The actions that follow my feet

Oh the seduction of meaningless things

I've been eating from gravesides

Swearing oaths to the fairest of moons

Trading masters by firelight

And sleeping in their tombs

All creation waits, aching for the day

(Earth, the sky, and savage tide will vanish under heavens

Rise, falling, fading)

There is no escape, from what the author fates

(Greater souls than we conceive

Concern themselves with our retreat)

I've been drifting in my words

I've been shifting my affection

To whatever love may call my name

Babel were your men so dim

To build their gods and worship them

Erect escape in increments

And place their faith in intellect

Now we've been weeping at gravesides

Swearing hope is an island away

Just a spark for the firelight

To keep despair at bay

My brothers, we are foolish

If this is how we think we can exist, there is no hope

We are all hopeless, we are broken

No tower built could ever save our souls

There is no hope, there is no

All creation waits

Aching for the day

(Falling, fading)

There is no escape

From what the author fates

(Falling, fading)

We've been living in shadows

Soon exposed to the light

Our existence will rupture

When the maker arrives

Every vanity shattered

Every galaxy frayed

We will suffer no longer

In these delicate frames

But no man knows the season or the time

And fault will find us all in guilty lives

And only mercy can a hope provide

Return, repent

Before deep heaven falls upon our heads