Rivers Run Black

A white cross is painted on every door

The sign of the times

Hallucinations, fever and pain

Is spreading like wildfire

The squeeking from carriages, laden with the dead

Is drowning all birdsong

Short graves are dug by desperate mothers

One last lullaby

The rivers run black

Unchanged and eternal

The sun brings a new day as we die

Meaningless, or a plan for a greater cause

Given no choice but to resign

And feed the earth, leave this world

The laughter of children have faded away

Their angelic voices died

As fools tell no tales, and the minstrel has silenced

Last glimmer of joy has gone

A dive from the cliffs of mercy

Into the sea of affliction

Lungs fill up and minds corrode

The beautiful life, a story unwritten

A tearfilled goodbye

Search for solace no more

What's been given will be taken back

And order is restored

The rivers run black

Unchanged and eternal

The sun brings a new day as we die

Meaningless, or a plan for a greater cause

Given no choice but to resign

And feed the earth, leave this world

Run black...

Meaningless...