Ashen Lyrics

I'm watching empires fall

So few even see the flames

Our forward motion is reduced to a crawl

We all just want a place to point the blame

The tower is burning

The proud citadel crumbles away

Starving masses are yearning

Pleading and hoping for a better way

Old wisdom forsaken

Vanity has scrubbed it away

Adorn ourselves with skin-deep glory

There will be a steep price to pay

Ashen faces look skyward

Lungs filling with smoke

The fire we started

Produces fumes upon which we choke

We've lost our way

We start to say

We fall away

All hope is lost

No hope today

We fall away

But tomorrow's not so far away

But hope is right before our eyes

Destruction is at hand

Pillars of flame reach to the sky

Our proud towers ground away to sand

A broken city where to live is to die

The event horizon

Lies far behind

We've passed into that unlit country

The realm of darkness that blinds

Ashen faces look skyward

Lungs filling with smoke

The fire we started

Produces fumes upon which we choke

We've lost our way

We start to say

We fall away

All hope is lost

No hope today

We fall away

But tomorrow's not so far away

But hope is right before our eyes