In the midst of the desolate night sky The furnaces still burn Exhumed by the petulant death throes As dust we return
Stood here on the brink of the wellspring The very font of life From the depths of the crystal waters The scents of death arise
No purpose is ordained Blind chance and chaos reign Seeming growth, veneer of progress Masks relentless decay
By the shadow of the cross I melt the earth and power the sun By painstaking inch peel back the guise Begrudge your secrets Truth become plain to my eyes
By the shadow of the cross I age the earth and forge the elements By the power of reason we cleanse the scourge The covenant is broken Flock to the razor of occam
With trembling hand the mirror raised Reluctantly to meet our gaze Light at last is shone within The caverns of the mind
The illusion stands revealed Liberty is thus repealed Free will and the flow of time Mere constructs of the mind
Three of space and one of time A single point or a rippling line A united force four of a kind A pliant space unyielding light
A regal truth or an impoverished lie A certain fate or the rolling die A single source a finite time An embedded code for an emergent mind