More, Ever More Lyrics

Glittering spires shine

Steel capillaries, intertwined with glinting arteries winking under the suns rise

Behold our creation, behold what we've become, behold the power of multitudes that swing hammers as one

AS ONE, we did gather, AS ONE we did grow

AS ONE we set our steeples skybound and overgrown

AS ONE the ground was leveled AS ONE we claimed this "settled"

AS ONE we plunged our hands deep, AS ONE began to meddle

An ever-expanding shore, a open hand demanding more

There's beauty in a hoard, value in the capture, but less in the exploring

Contorting webs of wires lace the visage of the suns mourning

All here is golden, progress ever swarming, forging

If there's beauty in the power, we stand radiant as the sun

If there's lunacy in this game, I guess we'll all soon be undone

But certainly long after we are all through with our fun

That's a problem for the unforeseen generations to confront

More expansion, less compassion, more extraction, less inaction

Maddening mishappen things that crawl up from the ashen

Remains of the land are just stains in the sand

Etching out the future plots perfectly poised for our plans

MORE, EVER MORE when our fingertips haven't brushed the sky

MORE, EVER MORE when the lust outweighs a "why?"

MORE, EVER MORE when there's no more fuel for our fire

Evermore to acquire, desire not to inquire

Aspire to the heights those lights serve to inspire

Provider of the hope, the scope for our wretched victory

I swear we'll show respect, please ignore the contradictory

Actions vs emotion, we will swear so fucking bitterly

That we have the best intentions, the ending stands predictably

Our legacy will glimmer, bitterly down passed through antiquity

With all these walls around how could this end besides our victory?

That victory claimed pyrrhic, years tick onwards evermore

When bursting stores press their doors, we'll endlessly contort

Ourselves to self deception, OUR choices the noble exception

Ascension, then pull up the ladder, our first and last resort

Every time. will the future look back ruefully?

Will they revel in our forethought or decree these dreams illusory?

Expansive walls yet beyond our doors we refuse to see

Festooned with greed. a gloating golden plated glowing eulogy

Bespoke from the shores of a decomposing and diluted sea

All useful now yet truthfully it's standing so soon to be

Consumed. but at the moment we remain in glory

And so marks the beginning of the end of our story