The Day We'll Be Gone

Closed, the eyes of the dead
 Yet I can see you all black surrounding my old abode
 Cry breaking the silence
 Lament of a mourner washing pain away like rain
 Life, the day we'll be gone (the greatest of all lies)
 A step into the unknown (the time to blink our eyes and we're gone)
 Free from all fears (before we die)
 Crave the peace of our earth (our immortality)
 As the memory (finally back to the)
 Resides in our name and fills the hearts (place of our earth)
 Lone, my body rests
 May the earth lie lightly upon my defenseless spoils
 Void, epiphany of absence
 Fading all my senses into the eternal night, vacuum
 Time, the day we'll be gone (illusion of our mind)
 The sleep of no return (the nemesis of the most foolish longing)
 Where everything's clear (eternity is...)
 
 Fame resounds in the words (when back to dust again)
 The true epitaph that will live forever (is inert, and all that remains it can be love or)
 Pain, afflicting the hearts (we inflicted on other men)
 Infecting the souls (infernal torment lasts)
 It's carved in the memories of our sons (for the ones we leave behind)
 Face what we've become (oh, who we really are)
 It shapes in the mirror a man we don't know (laid bare before the highest judge)
 The memory
 Shine
 Before returning to dust
 Accept the finite nature of flesh
 And carpe diem
 Live each day as if it's your last
 Unburdened of paralyzing dreads, move past
 As the master taught us
 Cold, the hand of fate
 Cruel, falls down relentless the curtain on passing flesh
 Death, the close of existence
 The mother of all fears and despair of mankind
 Is nothing but life