Empires of Dust

Intro Tribal drums, dark strings, slow heavy riff

Verse 1

They speak today of Atlantis, lost in time

Of Sumer, of Aryans, in an ancient rhyme

Lemuria was real, and how many more

Has this old Earth seen crumble to the floor

Verse 2

Buddhism and yoga tell of astral planes

Of shells around our bodies, of the soul that remains

Some wrote the Vedas, the Torah in the sand

Then Bible, then Quran, written by man's hand

Pre-Chorus

Yin and Yang in unity and war

From one Pra-Matter, from one ancient core

Then Light broke through in a moment so brief

And Life was born together with the grief

Chorus

We rise, we grow, then pride takes hold

We turn to stone, we turn to cold

Our sins bring down what we have built

Empires of dust, empires of guilt

But souls are eternal, they live on and on

Will we ever learn before we are gone

Verse 3

Why does the Cosmos need this Earthly net

That is the secret we have not solved yet

Only on Earth can a soul become light

In Astral above, souls stay the same in night

Chorus

We rise, we grow, then pride takes hold

We turn to stone, we turn to cold

Our sins bring down what we have built

Empires of dust, empires of guilt

But souls are eternal, they live on and on

Will we ever learn before we are gone

Bridge

Civilizations, they matured and grew

Then pride consumed them, through and through

It was their sins that brought them to their end

But eternal souls still live, my friend

Will we not learn, will we forget

We trade our spirit, we have not learned yet

When the end comes, we can only blame

Ourselves, like them, we will end the same

Guitar Solo Heavy, Eastern scale solo, choir swells underneath

Final Chorus

We rise, we grow, then pride takes hold

We turn to stone, we turn to cold

Our sins bring down what we have built

Empires of dust, empires of guilt

But souls are eternal, they live on and on

Will we ever learn before we are gone

Outro

Will we learn, will we learn

Before we are gone