Reckoning

Ashes to ashes, forever we fall down

With broken dreams we're blind to see

What twisted words they tell

In a sky that's without stars tonight

Where Nightmares grow so real

How far we fall, forever lost in broken concrete fields.

In a world that grinds so ceaselessly

Where the wheels of culture turn.

Where machines of hate speak hideously

And heaven's brightness burns

Offered up the fruits of slavery

Sown - the poisonous seeds of forgetting

Grow choking vines like bitter tragedies

And piercing thorns unseen.

And so runs the world away

On scriptured lies

The ash of memory

And so we fall away

On scriptured lies

The ash of memory.

In the withered tongues of love we'll speak

Our whisperhidden heresies

Ten thousand years of bondage

And their cultures black disease

May this bloodstained tale come to an end

Blessed are we who without hope at history's end

And we have buried what we have known of love

Come hollow eyes and unseen thoughts and brutal selfishness

And these scars of hate will never heal

These wounds that do bleed dry

Our mother earth condemned to die alone and she does cry

As we have grown deaf to the ceaseless roar

Of paradise burning forevermore

Choked with ash those dreams within us

Are waiting to be born

Let us speak of god

Let us speak of pain

Let us speak of suffering, sin and hate

Shut tight our eyes to their hollow lies

In this broken land of the dead

May silver tongue screams fall upon deaf ears

May the rivers of heaven run red