Ashes to Ashes

from The Hell We Have Chosen by Strixskog

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The towers you build may shine in the light
Lofty pillars to pride your mark on life
They already crumble
They rust and they break
You build for what? You build your mistakes

Your faces you mask
In beauty you languor
Youth is your god, you worship the mirror
Age sits on shoulders
Everyday you decay
Your beauty is rotting in your wasted grave

The crowds they are flocking
They praise your name
Adoring and smiling you are what they crave
In a year or one hundred All you are will be dust
Your followers forgotten
Your name but a husk

For pleasure you yearn
For pleasure you give
Your body a temple for others to live
Delusion holds fast
Your alone with the many
Used and abused for your throwaway body

Nothing remains
Nothing will last
In the end there will be only ash
Bury yourself
In delusions of grandeur
The things you’ve given meaning
Will eventually surrender to the pyre.
Build up the fire
Look upon the life you stand
And see sinking in like sand
What was the purpose
What did it mean?
The lessons of the past
Buried beneath the masses
Of
Ashes
Ashes to ashes

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from The Hell We Have Chosen, released January 18, 2023

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