The earth trembled
 All nature sighed
 In dread response
 A god has died!

 The wings of death have opened up
 As we nurture the world with pain

 Now we are disappearing
 Into the cancerous trees
 Where the shepherd has lost all his sheep

 Empty skies
 Our veins are open
 Following the radiant voice
 Of hopelessness and fear
 The temple walls disintegrate
 Mortal fears hammered into bloodstone

 "Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
 We sealed your tomb, begotten one
 "Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
 They buried you, forgotten one

 The sun withdrew its light in shame
 As we're trying to reach the stars

 For we are the defectors
 Of your broken destiny
 The crowned heads who first called retreat

 Still, in our minds
 At transcending the imminence
 Of suffering and misdeed
 Though all the emblems are set ablaze
 Reverence never admits defeat

 "Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
 We sealed your tomb, begotten one
 "Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
 They buried you, forgotten one

 Virtues of worthless black and white
 Held captive by sewer-hearts
 Spouted from the mandible of nothingness
 To appease the never-ending flow of hallowed scum
 Writhing in a pious confusion, each wearing a head of plaited thorns
 The passionless martyrs acting out ordinance, confined to dreary cellars of sanctity
 Abandoned kingdom in the sky, its master is laughing through amnesia clouds

 As the crowd descends from the mountain
 Through the swirling storms and eruptions
 The wingless dove in bloody rags; released