Language - self-destruction Against the iron air In broken, non-verbal strains An all-devouring sand The phantasm We invoke A monument A final stand We disappear The words from our bodies torn Irresistible In all its bewildering forms Deceptive - the images burn Fragments of silent lives Hunger of the dreaming dead Imagination - the death of man The phantasm We invoke A monument A final stand In blasphemy The words from our bodies torn Temptation Death in all its bewildering forms The tomb is the passage As the light flickers before me The head of the hydra The charlatan denounced We disappear The words from our bodies torn Irresistible In all its bewildering forms