[00:32.244]Take a step, put one foot in the grave,
[00:36.440]catch a breath submerged in holy water.
[00:40.373]Watch a moving scene of former days
[00:44.367]and shed a tear as memory starts to falter.
[00:47.479]
[00:48.345]And familiar faces try to hide the pain,
[00:52.555]medicate to alleviate the pressure.
[00:56.513]Make amends with the ones I used to hate,
[01:00.286]feel the agony give way to pleasure.
[01:03.186]
[01:04.203]Tearing down the walls of eternity,
[01:12.288]all in my loving memory.
[01:19.436]Final scene humility!
[01:35.798]
[01:36.124]I succumb to universal law,
[01:39.907]another system's energy disperses.
[01:43.828]Mother Nature red in tooth and claw,
[01:48.350]it's the game that everybody loses.
[01:51.215]
[01:52.078]Show your cards and accept what you've been dealt,
[01:56.050]guardian or harbringer of sorrow?
[02:00.300]Pour a drink and raise a glass and toast to health,
[02:04.299]is the truth too hard for us to swallow?
[02:06.899]
[02:08.034]Tearing down the walls of eternity,
[02:16.099]all in my loving memory.
[02:23.643]
[02:47.711]Master of creation lead us from temptation,
[02:51.647]father of invention please guide my ascension.
[02:55.621]So much left unspoken, life leaving heartbroken,
[02:59.633]a sense of acceptance, one final repentance.
[03:03.484]
[03:35.404]Read these words upon my stone:
[03:43.325]"In piam memoriam."
[03:51.418]Tearing down the walls of eternity,
[03:59.421]all in my loving memory.
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