Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Time is a thief you can never trust
From bulb to bulb, the sand pours down,
All our losses and triumphs to slowly drown.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Bear to bull and boom to bust.
Rags to riches and riches to rags,
All that’s been earned in robbers’ bags.
Great wars are fought, great battles won,
Nothing changes under the sun.
Never shall the bloodshed cease.
At no time shall this world see peace.
Walls shall fall, towers shall tumble,
The high made low, the mighty made humble.
Our cities die, the weeds close in,
An undying reminder of original sin.
Skin crumples and muscle degrades,
Charm is deceptive and beauty fades.
No lasting cure to slake our lust,
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
The sun rises and the sun sets,
Life moves on and soon forgets.
Raiment to moths, constructs to rust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.