Take a step put one foot in the grave

Catch a breath submerged in holy water

Watch a moving scene of former days

Shed a tear as memory starts to falter



Familiar faces try to hide the pain

Medicate to alleviate the pressure

Make amends with the ones I used to hate

Feel the agony give way to pleasure



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Tearing down the walls of eternity

All in my loving memory



Final scene humility



I succumb to universal law

Another system's energy disperses

Mother nature red in tooth and claw

It's the game that everybody loses



Show your cards and accept

What you've been dealt

Guardian or harbringer of sorrow?

Pour a drink, raise a glass

And toast to health

Is the truth too hard for us to swallow?



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Tearing down the walls of eternity

All in my loving memory



Master of creation

Lead us from temptation

Father of invention

Please guild my ascension



So much left unspoken

Life leaving heartbroken

A sense of acceptance

One final repentance



Read these words upon my stone

In piam memoriam



[Chorus]

Tearing down the walls of eternity

All in my loving memory