All Is Vanity - Necronautical

Beyond the veil I see time’s purpose in the passing

Imagined visions left congealing on the stone

'neath which the ritual, the old convention

Dispels the glamour of the corpse upon the throne

Born to a failed prophecy

All they knew was a fallacy

Their eyes turned blind in disbelief

To the higher truth: All is vanity

All empires fall into obscurity

All horizons fail

The more I know the less I hope

Your every action is indiffrence

And progenation is th tritest of them all

The seed they scatter, begetting vessels

Filled with the hollow promise of a false eternity

Behold

Graven in the image of the godhead

Wrought by benefactors of the creed

Whether robed in flesh of flock or shepherd

All is vanity

All empires fall into obscurity

All horizons fail

The more I know the less I hope

All is vanity

All is vanity

All is vanity

Covenants to empower and enslave

In false worth of life

In flock of Christ

Behind the gilt conceit

We bear the earth forged manacles of faiths great treachery

Great darkness lies ‘neath marble skies

So thinly veiled, I implore once more;

apostasy!

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

A parable to clutch?

This world a monument to shame

All is vanity

A striving after wind

All monotony

The more I know;

all is vanity!

All empires fall into obscurity

All horizons fail

The more I know the less I hope