Ash covers everything Black clouds blot out the sun Drowned are the memories Scorched remains of what once was Eternal darkness No guiding light Ethereal wind picks up Sparks drift through the night Dive into oblivion Ageless desolation Plunge into obscurity Relentless solitude I'll live one thousand years Not measured in time But in wisdom To learn what I can know And leave the rest up to my God When I am done I will lay down Beneath the canopy And watch as my body falls With the Earth I carve my sign into every tree With force, with precision, with purpose Neon aurora covers half the twilight sky A gift from heaven to light my way At the roots of the tallest tree Gnarled hands build an altar of limbs The alder torch weighs heavy in my hand Ignite the final flame of man