A Fool's Paradise

(album: V - The New Mythology Suite - 2000)

What's become of the world the colors unfurl revealing a blackened haze
Conditioned to fear the voice that we hear calling an end of days
Millions of souls under control like pawns to a king, led by a string, to the final hour

Oh Empire of the Sea,
Lords of technology that fell into the void
Oh shall it be as it was before a tragedy on every shore?

Is this the end of all we know innocence lost so long ago
Woven in dreams the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war we can't go on like this anymore
living like fools chaos will rule this eternal paradise

Death by design, altering birth trends of the modern age
The wisdom of life erased from the Earth in a reckless rampage

Oh Empire of the Sea,
Lords of technology bring death unto the earth
Oh shall it be as it was before a tragedy on every shore?

Is this the end of all we know innocence lost so long ago
Woven in dreams the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war we can't go on like this anymore
living like fools chaos will rule this eternal paradise

Dies Irae,
Dies Illa,
Solvet Saeclum in favilla

Decades of greed, plague, famine and war we can't go on like this anymore
Living like fools chaos will rule this eternal paradise

Is this the end of all we know innocence lost so long ago
Woven in dreams the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war we can't go on like this anymore
Lost in the night fading from sight is this the final setting sun?