Death and the Vibrant Architecture of Rebirth

The sky was on fire
 And I screamed and cried
 "Mother, get down!"
 The shock wave hit and it blasted through
 Everything that I thought I knew
 Prayed to all the luck that followed me
 Just see us through, just see us through, see us through
 But I felt that it was no use
 So we said our goodbyes
 And we waited
 As I held tight
 I knew right then that I would surely die
 It was my time to go
 I never felt more alive
 Eyes closed
 I saw the whole thing go
 Missiles rained down, weaved and chose
 Plague-filled pits swallowed men whole
 Don't understand how we were passed over
 I opened my eyes and we were still alive
 But my mother had not seen
 Some stone goddess drifted down
 From the vibrant architecture in the clouds
 She said we read the signs right
 She said the time's ripe
 O Death, I am through your eyes
 I behold no end in sight
 Now I know you as life
 And ours are the hands that write
 But it's a scary game
 Blackened with the thousand fears of child to man
 And it won't relent
 No matter how long you keep crying or moaning
 But it's wonderful
 Use the hurt to shine
 All on one, for how could one be THE without the world warning?
 A voltage not yet understood
 But it surges through all of you
 Which is to say it surges all through me
 It surges through everything