Ozymandias Lyrics

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert

Near them, on the sand

Half sunk a shattered visage lies

Whose frown

And wrinkled lip

And sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive

Stamped on these lifeless things

The hand that mocked them

And the heart that fed

And on the pedestal

These words appear

Don't hold your breath

There's nothing left

For you

No air to breathe

No life to live

No more

No arms to hold

All of this gold

Before

You turn to dust

You know you must

Don't you?

My king

I live to serve your throne

The one inside your mind

I hope your pride

Won't keep you from finding

Your kingdom lives

'Till the day it dies

Across the seas

Across the land

Burried deep in the sand

In each grain

Lies your vain

Or what's left of it

Castles of stone

Statues of gold

They will crumble and get old

With no soul left around

To forget them

Fool mortals try

To pretend they're mighty

But they can't fight time

They will fail and fall

Don't waste your time

Trying to prove you're great

Because the great

They turn to dust

Like all

My king

I bow before your power

Too great to be ignored

One day you'll fall

Like every tower

Your kingdom lives for never more

All lives turn into death one day

We all know

Just like all days turn into nights

We all see

From dust we came

To dust we must return

The water turns into vapor and snow

There are so many things you could never be

Enjoy the time you have before you burn

Across the seas

Across the land

Burried deep in the sand

In each grain

Lies your vain

Or what's left of it

Castles of stone

Statues of gold

They will crumble and get old

With no soul left around

To forget them

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair

My king

I live to serve your throne

The one inside your mind

I hope your pride

Won't keep you from finding

Your kingdom lives

'Till the day it dies

My king

I bow before your power

Too great to be ignored

One day you'll fall

Like every tower

Your kingdom lives for never more

Across the seas

Across the land

Burried deep in the sand

In each grain

Lies your vain

Or what's left of it

Castles of stone

Statues of gold

They will crumble and get old

With no soul left around

To forget me

Nothing beside remains

Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck

Boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away