Byzantine

Hope is gone
It has slipped away
from fingers now gone numb
Squeezing without ease
The engine of flesh
now ceases to beat

I'm holding on
For what seemed like years
the memories too strong
Death, he bends my ear
"Live" he says, "I'm coming
do not fear"

Life is slowly fading black
I've found my way I'm coming back

Life is slowly fading black
I've found my way I'm coming back
to life

We all begin to die
as soon as we're born
and the end is bleak.
Now I commence my
last voyage into darkness
I take the leap.
And may there be no
wailing at the wall
when I'm out to sea.
For each sad
moment of decay
we rise
There's much death in this life!