Veiled in the steady hum
Of constructed noise
Are fabricated deceptions
Universally embraced
With the ascent's subtle stir
Innocence is erased

We sang of freedom and liberty
A song so powerful - even the dead joined in
Yeah even the dead joined in, to sing it
The chorus now silenced
Fragments of peace
Shattered across the sky
Hear the rise
Eyes alight
See them all
See the rise
Of the fall

Clenching fists in defiance
Shadows lengthen
God of ruin
Crowned in frenzy
Marked pariahs
Who once walked in friendship
Beside us

Ruins of democracy
Monuments of hubris
Delirium always follows dream
Once promising now ruthless
Lady Liberty's demise
This dream was always theirs, never mine
Never mine

No, this dream was never mine

We sang of freedom and liberty
A song so powerful - even the dead joined in
Yeah even the dead joined in, to sing it
The chorus now silenced
Fragments of peace
Shattered across the sky
Hear the rise
Eyes alight
See them all
See the rise
Of the fall

Hear the rise of the fall
Feel the rise of the fall

Descend to the underworld
Hades awaits us
Bells of mortality
Toll in the distance
Those who seek destruction
Always find their mark
And drag the rest of us
Into their seduction

Asphyxiating future
Excruciating past
Remember
The ashes of the fallen empire
A thousand years that didn‘t last
Now writing history on our own
It will not written for us
On parchment of our bone

We sang of freedom and liberty
A song so powerful - even the dead joined in
Yeah even the dead joined in, to sing it
The chorus now silenced
Fragments of peace
Shattered across the sky
Hear the rise
Eyes alight
See them all
See the rise
Of the fall

See the rise of the fall
See the rise of the fall
Feel the rise of the fall

But the bells keep tolling
And the fists keep rising
But the lies keep buying them all
Until the rise of the fall