We tight-rope the cusp of total collapse Cutthroat cruel lust and stone wall regress We manage to damage beyond the pale Cold hammer attack, every threat is a nail Gouge out all eyes, rip out all teeth The violent are blessed as they murder the weak There’s not enough blood to quench the land The birds will descend for the gone of man The gone of man The gone of man The gone of man Future of pain whence the present malaise Fractured assurance eclipsed by rage Nuture the process of nature’s swift scythe The death of all “selves”, the peace of no mind The sand wears our skulls, the smile of the shore The ocean rejoices for the human no more The reign of true silence, no boast of our end Here lies all tyrants, the gone of man The gone of man The gone of man The gone of man From whence we came The chaos, the womb With gnashing and tears We crawl to our doom From whence we came The chaos, the womb With gnashing and tears We crawl to our doom Ash, black ash Hand in hand Ash, black ash Hand in hand Beg the mountains to fall To hide us from her gall Beg the thunder to pound To deafen her laughing bawl