Flames, wildfire
As far as the eye can see
Purging inferno catastrophe
Waves, high water
At the places it shouldn't be
Sweeping, whirlpool insanity

World downfall, the fury and the chaos within
Ambushment, attack from within the Earth

[Chorus]
When the sky turns black and nature's sounds go mute
The dead walk the Earth's last round
Outnumbering the day
All light peels away
In the flickering sway of the sun's last ray

Winds, tornado
Rage above all lands
Blowing storm out of hand

Soil, sands
Spreading across the nations
Disastrous dry desert plantations

When the rats flee off this sinking ship called Earth
The world stops turning as time dies
Outnumbering the day
All the air blows cold
As the damp mold covers more than only our old


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    The dead walk the Earth's last round Outnumbering the day All light peels away In the flickering sway of the sun's last ray"

    Very poetic and grotesquely evil at the same time

    Ddaduttaon September 24, 2006   Link
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    "World downfall, the fury and the chaos within Ambushment, attack from within the Earth"

    needs to be repeated under "Disastrous dry desert plantations"

    and "At the places it shouldn't be" is "should not"

    thanks

    Dubmoodon June 18, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    This song is clearly about the end of the world and mother nature reclaiming what was once hers

    "When the sky turns black and nature's sounds go mute"

    Everythings dead, theres no sun in the sky, everything has ended, even the animals.

    "The world stops turning as time dies Outnumbering the day"

    I love this line, the thought of time itself, dying, is very thought provoking, I am still unsure as to what "outnumbering the day" means.

    Gibbonbyteon October 04, 2008   Link

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