What comes after the ordeal? An expiration sweeter than death The pain of division is as nothing And the joy of dissolution all Any empire created is ultimately an empire lost As death is the crown of all ♪ Everything passes The end of the illusion Where the wheels stop spinning Where the rivers run backwards ♪ Into the golden light ♪ There is a veil that is black The veil of the pain and the sorrow and the death Tear down this lying spectre of the centuries ♪ Hear me! People of sighing The sorrows of pain and regret Are left for the dead and the dying