The Decline

[Music: Ideberg, Mackrory, Malmström, lyrics: Mackrory] Here we stand with all hope gone Tainted by the death we've seen Pushing onward on barren land Feeding on the will to live Left with all the pain, The fear and denial With open arms we fall When the shadows descend on our souls And the end is so near When the smell of defeat is in the air We embrace our fate With no life left to give We survive into defeat Despair, dispirited Bereaved and without hope Frantic, ravenous At the end of my rope We succumb to the dark Where all life goes to cease When the shadows descend on our souls And the end is so near When the smell of defeat is in the air We embrace our fate When the darkness devours our minds The solution's so clear And we all stand aside To watch it die When it all fades away