Five Hundred Years Later

As steel once swamped forgotten names
 And blackened smoke eclipsed the sun
 So too can Gaia heal the wound
 Just as she once was over run
 Each spire begets an open grave
 A ruined shrine to lucidity
 Sepulchral glimpses of the past
 That reach out from the shallow sea
 Forgotten pillars of the earth
 Ruins of a lost age granting shelter to the seeds of our rebirth
 As Empires Fall
 Old Gods will drop upon their knees
 Before the dawn of a new age
 Frozen in time
 Their severed hands are numb
 They are forgotten and fading away
 Such foolish children to believe
 Their mother's blood is theirs to burn
 Won't see their walls prevent her march
 But serve to welcome her return
 How fragile sits a throne of kings
 When echoes sweep its empty halls
 How hollow seem the spoils of man
 When Heaven falls
 As Empires Fall
 Old Gods will drop upon their knees
 Before the dawn of a new age
 Frozen in time
 Their severed hands are numb
 They are forgotten and fading away
 Here lies the seat of the corrupt
 The vein pursuit of man
 Inscribed beneath the rust
 Here lies the stronghold of the damned
 Those kings now left with naught
 But empty shells that rise up from the dust
 As Empires Fall
 Old Gods will drop upon their knees
 Before the dawn of a new age
 Frozen in time
 Their severed hands are numb
 They are forgotten and fading away
 Scorn
 Those mortal born
 Forgotten ghosts
 Whose glory slips away