You hope to be remembered As you cling to your life Even in death you wish to be unique Laying beneath a shroud Draped in misery Unaccepting of our shared fate The spirit begins to fade Cold lifeless eyes stare back at mea s I gaze upon that which remains Preserve my memory The weak do always beg But we return to dust before too late There's no conquering the reaper with this fools' masquerade We bid this world farewell Now off to hell as our corpse rots in the ground Don't pity the dead! Pity those who hope for salvation through ceremony Oh what a waste! Cold lifeless eyes stare back at me as I gaze upon that which remains Preserve my memory The weak do always beg But we return to dust before too late