Time’s Cruel Curtain

Lies that we've inherited
Generation  to generation
That  one can do anything
That all human life is gilded in gold

Time doesn't care for your feelings
Time  doesn't know how to hate
Time  draws the conclusions
And the path to your fate

No  future for those that destroy
No rainbow for those that conserve
Life is a sentence time naturally burns
Hell on earth that our species deserves

Breed  before the fires start
Bleed out into the dark
This need for validation
This greedy life's ambition

An element of species narcissism
A grandiose idea of self-worth
In a vessel of organic matter
In a league with its own feces

We know that we're wrong
We know what we've done
Yet we still carry on
The curtain has closed
As only time knows
'Cause that's how it goes
Bed of fire or decompose

We know that we're wrong
We know what we've done
Yet we still carry on
The curtain has burned
No lessons are learned
Our ashes in the urn
This meeting is adjourned

O, into the nothing
"What are you now that I once was?
What I am now, you will soon be"