Predator

This is the way, this is the way, this is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, not with a bang, not with a bang but a whimper

Run a violent memory
Down the spine of a whispering gun
Breathe a jagged history
Severed tongue
Wrapped in blood
Burn the stag
Burn the stag
Burn the forest into the ground
Son of earth
Return to the dirt
Return to the dirt

I wanted to be
The sum of your dreams
Well maybe in time
But all that I am
And all I could bleed
Was a memory

This is the way, this is the way, this is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, not with a bang, not with a bang but a whimper

A legacy tattered
We hold a vigil
In repose, the void is exposed
Mourn the loss of a world
Collapse
Cycle of violence
Cascade
Sound of silence

Prince of nothing, feasting on the wreckage and
Manifested in dagger teeth
Crown of bone twisted up in violent visions of
Existential dread

Blood and bone
Hunted down
All at once profound
Signifying nothing
Avenging the ghosts that you
Never got to betray

I wanted to be
The sum of your dreams
We'll just let it die
But all that I am
And all I could bleed
Was a memory

Fuel for the flame, fuel for the flame, feeding the fuel for the flame
Ashes will cleanse, ashes will cleanse, blackened and burnt is the sky
Slings and arrows hunting down dreams of
Something you never thought you could be
If the tower of bodies were high enough
Could you reclaim your grace

Devil tongues
Speak the ember, deluge comes
Broken voice
Speak the ember, deluge comes
Hallowed words
Speak the ember, deluge comes
Eschaton
Speak the ember, deluge comes