As the clanking footfalls echo With the mirthless concrete walls Down the parting road The end to unfold Marching relentlessly As if to break free Towards the yawning void Beyond the dawning light For the end has come As time is gone Behold The path foretold When the time has come For the end undone Behold All the gold in the scale pan And the scheming of the damned Erasing gods exiled Paradise defiled Will I ever hear the awen sing In a cosmos filled with reverence Will I touch the soil in awe again And caress the whispering winds divine Will we pray the vivid orison Will we see the promised aeon When slaughter become history And the children of Anu unite