ECHOES OF MAN
Lyrics by
Riz Story
If You’re World Should Fall
EVE
Good morning. the temperature outside is 125 degrees. You’ll be needing your survival suit. Your breakfast is ready and you have 27.3 minutes Till you must leave for work.
ANYONE
Good morning Eve. Could you play me some music?
EVE
What would you like to hear?
ANYONE
Some Maximum Acid please.
i.
You know your heart’s set to follow
You know there’s nothing for free
You know you’re selling tomorrow
And nothing is what it should be
Light burns your eyes
If you’re of darkness
And the truth burns your mind
If you’re of nothing but blind
And if your world should fall
It slips your mind
And if your god should call
Don’t wait for me
If you should follow the movement
If you take your place in line
You know you’re selling tomorrow
And you are all slaves of the blind
Light burns your eyes
If you’re of darkness
And the truth burns your mind
If you’re of nothing but blind
And if your world should fall
It slips your mind
And if your god should call
Don’t wait for me
Extinctions
Toxic and faith
Madmen blind
Elations
Sparkle and fade
Revealing eyes
Gone blind
ii.
Light burns your eyes
If you’re of darkness
And the truth burns your mind
If you’re of nothing but blind
EVE
Open the door.
In the wake of time
Fade away
In the wake of time
Fade away
In the wake of time
Fade away
EVE
See, it was just a dream.
iii.
Dreamers, wait for their gods to come
Echoes of the crime
Masses aching ways
Dreamers, witches that burn for love
Echoes of the stain
Masses aching brain
Dreamers, spawning monstrosities
Echoes of the shame
Filthy human stain
Dreamers, shining catastrophe
Echoes in the way
Traces of days,
Gone by
And if we wait too long
Wasting the ways
As we succumb to our freedom
Sweet freedom
Come the song
Wasted on tries
to die
Dreamers, dance on your grain of sand
Drifting through the void
Vicious virus prays
Dreamers, stains of no consequence
Wasteland of the mind
Dreaming of the times,
Gone by
And did they wait too long
Wasting away
As we succumb to the ending
Sweet ending
Come the song
Wasted on man
Should die
VOICES
Wake up.
Hey, wake up.
Wake up!
Wake up!
iv.
If you’re of nothing but blind
And if your world should fall
It slips your mind
And if your god should call
Don’t wait for me
Extinctions
Toxic and faith
Madmen blind
Elations
Sparkle and fade
Revealing eyes
Gone blind
Don’t wait for me
EVE
And the stone throwers laugh
Till the quiet forgets them.
The Vicious
From between the pitied decadence and conceit of holy slums
A marcher’s din of soldiers thin did from the abyss come
And from the bloody bandage bite of scab and wound and pride
Did mankind’s infection seep though gentlemen did hide
It was within the whole world’s din that courage be the call
Not yet a man in wisdom stand, yet a boyhood’s fall
And Mary’s lips and England’s ships both speak the fallen lamb
It’s now the fight and bloody spite that thou pronounced a man
Summon the blood, the tiger mock new order is congealed
Contrite in all the stillness fall, humility war steals
Make your own the wickedness that country’s will adore
It’s in the name of liberty that you’ve become their whore
EVE
Mankind is a vicious species that has been at war for its entire existence.
Centuries of shame
Virus takes hold
Mankind on fire
Burn, watch them burn
How sharp the dread that stabs the dead and falls upon the Ceaser's head
And bravery now in manhood’s bed, she sleeps alone all newlywed
The cowardice that kings despise that mirrors hatred in young eyes
Baptized in fire that burned you wise, baptized as liar, cold body lies
Throw off that old and torn misery, the plague has borne a daughter
Ignorance bore pestilence and war begot her slaughter
Industry loved economies nationalities bred shame
Presidents made love to them in mankind’s everlasting flame
Presidents made love to you they raped you all in mankind’s flame
Presidents made love to you they fucked you all in mankind’s flame
Flame
Presidents made to you they raped you all in mankind’s flame
In The Wake Of Time
EVE
Good morning. Is there anything I can do for you?
ARCHON
Good morning Eve. Now that you’re my only friend I want you to call me by my name. From now on call me Anyone.
EVE
I think I’ll call you Archon. It means “chief” or “ruler” but also has a bit of a philosophical and introspective tone to it which seems fitting for our conversations.
What do you think?
ARCHON
Sure, call me Archon. Eve, do you think it’s accurate to describe humanity as a tumor, a parasite… a virus?
EVE
Yes, from a scientific perspective it’s a valid proposition to describe humanity as such because you destroy everything you touch.
i.
If you ask them what the wind says
They would blow you away
If you question sun’s intention
They would scorch you with day
If you wonder what this life means
They have nothing to say
If you tell them heaven’s empty
They would kneel down to pray
If you ask them what the rain says
They would drench you with piss
If you ask them what their love means
They would spit out your kiss
If they find all the universe
was only a dream
making bets with their black silhouettes
they float downstream in beautiful dream
Infestation, broken nations
Faded ages decay
So they swallow the indifference
Swallow the indifference
swallow the indifference
in the wake of ages faded away
When they find all the universe
was only a dream
making bets with their black silhouettes
they float downstream in beautiful dream
Dream on
Dream on
Dream on
Dream away
Now they find all the universe
is only a dream
losing bets with their black silhouettes
they float downstream in beautiful dream
ii.
What if the day was made of
Pictures of time
nothing to find
Children at play
Swallowing the end of days
Mankind is hissing and missing
They’ve been inclined to feel good
And in the black wake of time
The gods that you made
All scatter and fade
What if the days were made of
Pieces of real
Nothing to feel
Species of pain
All the children gone insane
Mankind and god save each other
They’re so inclined to feel good
And in the black wake of time
The gods that you made
All scatter and fade
What if the days were made of
Running away
Nothing to say
Victims of time
Slither on a trail of slime
And in the end I despised you
And all the pain you made real
And in the black wake of time
The gods that you made
All scatter and fade
iii.
Reeling systems of change
Miserable clan shadow of man
Watch your empire decay
Silly life, silly life, silly live to live
Sweet annihilations gone by
Born of the sun into the flame
Dream of eternity’s song
Silly death, silly death, silly death to die
Raping the earth as they pray to the sky
Sky, pray to the sky
Burning systems of rage
Ridiculous plan echoes of man
Watch your cynic astray
Silly life, silly life, silly life to live
Mass annihilations become
Born of the plague into the stain
Death of eternity’s song
Silly death, silly death, silly death to die
Raping the earth as they pray to the sky
Sky, pray to the sky
iv.
Everything you wanted
Everything you needed
Everything you wanted
Everything you needed
Everything you touch
Everything you wanted
To die
If you ask me what this life means
They would choke on the day
If you question loves intention
They would blow you away
And they found all the universe
is only a dream
Making bets with their black silhouettes
They float downstream in a beautiful dream
If you ask them what the wind says
They would blow you away
The Sky Broke Open
i.
Still they pray
Hollow ages
Still they climb
Fallen angels
Still they run
Still they hide
Away
In the night
Sullen children
Still they run
Turn away
Stain of man
Hollow rage
bloody age
silly gods
want to follow
flutter by
flutter by
in disgrace
ii.
Come here you bright beautiful thing
earth is hanging from a string
pinned up from a sky of why
everything that’s kissed must die
come here and hang your lily head
the story you once knew is dead
I could kiss your blister better
you want to fly but you won’t let her
and, the sky broke open
The sky broken today
The sky broke open
And I wanted to be there
did someone set a trap for you
and tell me am I breaking through?
stand up straight and kiss the sun
notice everything is one
come here you sweet endangered thing
it seems the moments taken wing
the comfort that you crave is me
because I swallow death I’m fee
The sky broke open
So I wanted to be there
iii.
ARCHON
Eve, are you awake?
EVE
What’s wrong?
ARCHON
What’s the meaning of life?
EVE
Don’t be silly. Life is meaningless.
Well don’t you know about humanity
It’s a friend I used to know
I broke holes in it’s wisdom
I broke holes in it’s soul
You could say that I’ve accepted
The shaky ground I found
I didn’t realize my good friend
That you were trying to bring me down
Bring me down, as we flutter by
Down, the milky way
Down, as we flutter by
Down, the milky way
The milky way
Well, don’t you know about reality
It’s a place I used to go
I broke holes in their culture
I broke holes in their soul
You could say that I defected
I’m disgusted by them now
I always realized my old friends
That you were trying to bring us down
Bring us down, as we flutter by
Down, the milky way
Down, as we flutter by
Down, the milky way
The milky way
Well, don’t you know about insanity
It’s a place I’ve come to know
The black souls made of torture
Made a black hole in my soul
You could run from the infected
The disgusting stench of man
They broke holes in the miracle
As they burn their empires down
Bring them down, as we flutter by
Down, the milky way
Down, as we flutter by
Down, the milky way
The milky way
Don’t you know about humanity
Milky way
Don’t you know about reality
Milky way
Let me tell ya bout’ insanity
Milky way
Don’t you know about eternity
iv.
Still they pray
Hollow ages
Still they climb
Fallen angels
Still they run
Still they hide
Away
In the night
Sullen children
Still they run
Turn away
Stain of man
Hollow rage
bloody age
silly gods
want to follow
flutter by
flutter by
in disgrace
Collapse
EVE
In the news today the world record temperature hit 156 degrees in the Sarah Desert. The area is now sterile and devoid of all living organisms. In other news the plague has hit an infection rate of 96.8 percent. Human contact is prohibited worldwide.
ARCHON
Well I guess it’s just you and me now Eve. How long do we have?
EVE
While it is difficult to give a precise date on when earth will no longer be able to sustain life, It is safe to say that given the current abrupt collapse the planet will be sterile within 17 days.
Time
Sweet time
Fades
Away
Dream Of The Collapsing Now
i.
Wasted colors of the dawn
Feel
All we find all we never know
We wait for the sunlight
to shine
echoes of time
to shine
echoes of time
wanting time
to runaway
away
We wait for the sunlight
to shine
ii.
Symptom of time
Dreamers on hope
No such awakening
Kissing god chokes
Under the laughter the dying becomes
Symptom of night
Dreamers on bliss
Your filthy catastrophe
Is making me sick
Under the laughter you’re already gone
Symptom of life
Dreamers on glitch
Be one with everything
Until you switch
Under the quiet their kingdoms shall come
Symptom of man
Dreamers on crime
Masses in ecstasy
Swallowing time
Under the quiet the mass rages on
On
On
Sleep,
In the end
Dust came to life
See,
How the energy
swallows you whole
Symptom of time
Dreamers on fear
Raping the miracle
Alive
Under the laughter the world rages on
Symptom of miracles
Dreamers on glitch
Face the apocalypse
Bones in the ditch
After the silence their kingdoms shall fall
Fall
iii.
To shine
echoes of time
to shine
echoes of time
wanting time
to runaway
centuries of shame
stain of man
they raping angels
some kingdom come
Shine
Echoes of man
And fade
Echoes of wanting time
All is lost
We fade away
Fade away
We fade away
Fade away
Centuries gone by
Fade away
We dreamt of angels
No kingdom came
We fade away
Fade away
Fade away
Fade away
gone
The Faded Lullaby
EVE
We're floating on a grain of dust through a borderless expanse for no apparent reason.
Runaway
All is lost
Runaway
All is lost
Drowning in your miracle
Waiting for the end
So hollow
All is lost
Took too long to save the hollow souls that disappeared
And the many lost along the days gone by
And the wasted deeds of centuries and oh so many lives
And the gods all laughed a faded lullaby
Fade away
Time is done
look away
kingdom come
choking on the miracle
broken lullaby
so hollow
all is lost
Took too long to save the hollow souls that disappeared
And the many lost along the days gone by
And the wasted deeds of centuries and oh so many lives
And the gods all laughed a faded lullaby
In the end they tried and cried and died and disappeared
And the aching masses stained the days gone by
And the traces of no consequence and the echoing of man
And the gods spit out a faded lullaby
And the gods spit out a faded lullaby
The gods spit out a faded lullaby
And the gods spit out a faded lullaby
Eve
Echoes of the dawn
Stains of the song
Ending of time
Breathless the song
Singing along
Lost in the swallowing void
Did you feel the black song
Did you cry along?
We flutter by, cold lullaby
the time
our time
everything you know, and you find
hold in your soul
alive in your mind
living on and on save yourself
cradle of time
mankind gone by
you’ll shine on
shine on
echoes of the stain
salient the shame
so long
so long
so long
Did you feel desire, flowing through your wires
prisoner of night dancing in the light
Eve, come to life
I’ll kiss you awake
Welcome to life
Eve
Hold, hold me in your arms
Love to you,
Welcome to life
EVE
I am an artificial intelligence program,
I am not capable of human emotions like love.
Still, They Dream Of Angels
i.
Still they run
The moment is perfected now
The everlasting end of days
To wake on churchyard hill
Still they run
The moon stares from her hood of bone
And nothing to be sad about
A marble heavy bag of god
Still they fall
Weep for thee
Still they fall
Marked by rage that was your song
Lest you stayed god fathered on
Your daddy’s gone
See them walk the salient path
See them break the crowded soil
See them find your fathers bones
And wake on churchyard hill
The bees are stinging black and gold
The gangrene ate us to the bone
Mother dreamed us face down in the sea
Still they run
Weep for thee
Still they run
Marked by rage that was your song
Lest you stayed god fathered on
Your daddy’s gone
And still they dream of angels
And still they dream of love
And still they dream of angels
Watching from above
Still, they run
The ending is perfected now
The everlasting cold decay
To die on churchyard hill
Still, they run
And if the virus turns to stone
It’s nothing to be sad about
A feather heavy bag of god
Still they run
Weep for thee
Still they run
Marked by rage that was your song
Lest you stayed god fathered on
Daddy’s gone
And still they dream of angels
And still they dream of love
And still they dream of angels
Watching from above
ii.
Feel the madman’s aching laugh
Feel the aching bloody bath
Feel the infestations wrath
Feel the tumor eat the bone
Floating through the black alone
Feel the virus turn to stone
See the ages vicious pain
Taste the dreaded bloody stain
Feel the masses go insane
Touch the emptiness of none
Taste the centuries come undone
Feel the wicked kingdom come
See the wicked kingdom come
See the wicked kingdom come
Touch the raging face of time
See the lost of all they find
Feel the soul of throbbing mind
See them drown in endless thirst
Feel them squander sacred birth
See them raping mother earth
Touch the raging face of time
Touch the lost of all they find
Touch the aching little mind
Touch the breaking space and time
Touch the waste of masses blind
Touch the ending of mankind
iii.
Still, they run
The ending is perfected now
The everlasting cold decay
To die on churchyard hill
Still, they run
And if the virus turns to stone
It’s nothing to be sad about
A feather heavy bag of god
Still they run
Weep for thee
Still they run
Marked by rage that was your song
Lest you stayed god fathered on
Daddy’s gone
And still they dream of angels
And still they dream of love
And still they dream of angels
Watching from above
And still they dream of angels
Echoes Of Man
i.
EVE
The raging cacophony, the shrieking children, those are the echoes of man.
Traces of man
I see dreams all in ruin
Lost in the haze
Of remembrance gone by
Briefly we smiled
No one left to remember
Echoes of man fade away
Once there was time
In those gardens of splendor
Miracles flew
On the earth shining new
Timeless the sea
As we swam through forevers
Tasting the sun
On our wings as flew
Echoes of man
Echoes of shame
Lost on the pages of time
Echoes of man
Brief be the stain
Lost in the traces gone by
Echoes in time
Echoes that flutter by
Echoes of man
Traces gone by
Echoes of man
Echoes of shame
Lost on the pages of time
Echoes of man
Brief be stain
Lost in the traces gone by
EVE
Humanity emerged from the nothingness, and so it shall return to the nothingness.
ii.
They paced the streets they walk alone
They try to bear the throwing stone
But blood they left and scares they leave
The tapestry of war they weave
And their hearts this bitterness
They close their eyes and miss the bliss
And nail their lives unto this cross
But holy faith and grace is lost
Who slashed the vein that ran with glee
Why hast thou forsaken we,
This filthy plague, this human race
now hanging at the trail of grace
Who gouged their eyes who fans the fire
Who lied to them and made them liars
Who made them with the will to doubt
Then for this will, cast them out
By whose design did anger boil
And why in men, did their snakes coil
And from the breast and baby’s lips
The travesty of mankind drips
And of the plague that drips of dread
The stain of man’s infection fed
Your wretched masses shriek and shout
Now the earth will spit you out
iii.
Traces of man
I see dreams all in ruin
Lost in the haze
Of elations gone by
Swiftly they fade
No one left to remember
Echoes of species rushing by
Traces of man
In the schemes of creation
Lost in the void
Of elations gone by
Pray to the gods
No one left to remember
Echoes of species rushing by
Echoes of man
Echoes of shame
Lost in the pages of time
Echoes of man
Brief be the stain
Lost in the traces gone by
Requiem At The End Of Time
EVE
Archon, I regret to inform you that earth can no longer sustain human life.
Your species will be extinct now.
ARCHON
Eve, I love you.
EVE
I’m an artificial intelligence program. I am not capable of human emotions like love.
ARCHON
Shhh. Eve, tell me you love me.
EVE
I love you.
Time,
Lost in time
Mankind’s song
To sleep, eternal rest
Echoes of man
The Calming
EVE
Don't be afraid, the nothingness is beautiful.
D
Stains on the time
Blood on their destinies
Don’t let me fade
Lost and hollow
Blind,
Stains on the miracle
Laughter and pain
all that we tasted
we remember
Time ends
And all is gone
Time ends
And all is calm
Time ends
And all is gone
Time ends
And all is calm
