A storm of light

WE WATCHED AS THE FLAMES CONSUMED FORESTS AND DESERTS DESTRUCTION OF THE AGE WITH THUNDER THE LIGHT BURST THE SKY ABLAZE SHADOWS OF THOSE BLACKBIRDS BROUGHT THAT COLD BLACK HAZE DARK CLOUD GATHER US...

SILVER MEMORIES OF BRILLIANT LIES REVIVE, CAPTURE DISTANT LIVES SORROW HAD SWEPT O'ER THE LAND MURDERED BY THE SONS THE INNOCENTS RIVERS RUN IN BLOOD LUCENT VALE ABANDONED AVARICE CLENCHED THE SUN...

WE WERE SO AFRAID THERE WAS NO TRUST ALL THE TELEVISED RAGE FILLED OUR MINDS WITH RUST AND WE KILLED THE MAN WITH A DIFFERENT GOD AND WE KILLED THE WOLF JUST FOR HIS BLOOD I REMEMBER NOW MY SELFISH...

Fade Into nothing Cities decay The grief And sickness Is buried Sink into the trees The age of ruin is over and we revel Symmetry returns From sea to shining sea Nightmares drift back Down that river...

I slept for ages And you grew up Dreams kept me lost In the skies above All that you've done Your twilight's last gleam While my meadows rot Amber waves of gray For millennia The kingdom reigned They...

As the sunshine Keeps me warm These days are good The hunt goes on And the starlight Keeps me safe Through the night The hunt goes on Harpoons lie Poised to fire And for us The hunt goes on As the old...

Clouds of smog In the marrow So dearly held The wind will swallow The fossil air Corrodes and binds Tempestuous breath The wind will swallow Across the skies Rusted rain falls So proudly hailed The...

We come spinning out of nothingness scattering stars All CREATION bears the MOLECULAR MEMORY of a TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF ELECTRICITY, ENERGY, MATTER AND MOTION. A VIOLENT ERUPTION OF WHITE LIGHT WHITE...

What I have seen Let me repay Their lives Their dreams I'll give this mass To the depths to crush And rust my shell I could have saved them What I could have done They will never know While they died...