the triumph of power exists as a lie its control, a figment of all it denies with pitiful gestures, we jump as it tries to salvage the notion it comes from the sky what knowledge precedes us, what failures held high with this i admonish the longing that dies they'll tell you of battles you'll exit alive but know that these fragments of hope are all lies we end and begin outside and within / reduced to skin the truth is thing what hope shall change the flow of time? this bone is lead, this curse is mine here i stand, the lord of all i see this kingdom is fire, it answers not to me strained and torn / this i know: all that we are is but a blaze we're nothing but disciples of the wind here i stand, the lord of all i see this kingdom is fire, it answers not to me