Time's Cruel Curtain

Lies that we've inherited generation to generation

That one can do anything, that all human life is gilded in gold

Time doesn't care for your feelings

Time doesn't know how to hate

Time draws the conclusion

And the path to your fate

No future for those that destroy

No rainbow for those that conserve

Life is a sentence, time naturally burns

Hell on earth that our species deserves

Breed before the fires start

Bleed out into the dark

This need for validation

This greedy life's ambition

An element of species narcissism

A grandiose idea of self-worth

In a vessel of organic matter

In a league with its own feces

We know that we're wrong

We know what we've done

Yet we still carry on

The curtain has closed

As only time knows

'Cause that's how it goes

Bed of fire or decompose

We know that we're wrong

We know what we've done

Yet we still carry on

The curtain has burned

No lessons are learned

Our ashes in the urn

This meeting is adjourned

O into nothing

"What are you now that I once was?

What I am now, you will soon be"