Rising and falling From cradle to grave And all of our precious, fleeting time Is slipping away Millions of pitiful fading lives Running in vain from the shadows of death Our worlds formed and faded Like the words of the dead Another generation sliding into oblivion To the darkness ahead Look upon the corpse, your captor Taunting silently of our demise Leaving all behind forevermore Even yourself, even your mind Why can't we live again? All these riches lost to time Skills and knowledge lie buried, forsaken With all those lives Millions of beautiful fading minds Searching in hope through the shadows of death Falling blind into the shadows of death