(Omnis caro fenum est, umbra venit) (Sanguis terrae, finis mundi) The glass towers bow to the rising tide In the belly of the lab, where the secrets hide No heartbeat left in the cooling steel Just the grinding rhythm of a broken wheel We fed the fire until the sky turned black And now the iron gates seal the path behind our back Can you hear the static in the holy prayer? The smell of ozone and the thick, grey air We are the last candle in a cathedral of ghosts Surrendered to the void, an abandoned host Forgive the sin, for we have no breath to cry Beneath the hollow stars, we watch the empire die Hope is a flicker in the throat of the night As the abyss swallows the final light The mutation creeps through the pulsing floor You don't know the hero you were before Isolation is the needle, pain the thread Stitching up the memories of the absent dead I hold the trigger with a trembling hand To clear the plague from this hollow land We are the last candle in a cathedral of ghosts Surrendered to the void, an abandoned host Forgive the sin, for we have no breath to cry Beneath the hollow stars, we watch the empire die Hope is a flicker in the throat of the night As the abyss swallows the final light Requiem pro humanitate Lux occidit, umbra regnat (Fading whispers...) (Amen...)