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Close your eyes and kneel and pray to your

Maker unseen to harness me

For I am your angst, the healer, the clockmaker

Breeder of days running so, so fast

The arsonist of cycles unending

Ornamented with rings of age

It’s me who shifts the seasons, who steals the

Moments that you never get back

Everything changing - I know your sorrow

The sand in the hourglass is only yours to borrow

And when I stand still - you breathe in, breathe out

To count the grains of wasted time through the night

Grovel before my might, human!

Look in my eyes and listen

Praise the prime mover, eras beholder

Worship my machine, kneel before the queen!

Time is moving on, won’t turn back for none

Come and watch the sand running through your hand

I hear you wailing for just a little more

As the gold grains fall my hourglass rules you all

Bow your knee to the power I command!

I give with one and take with the other hand

Grovel before my ceaseless dominium

For I am your shadow from birth to oblivion

Everything changing - breathe in

Come count the grains of wasted time