Ivy crawling, twisting through the cracks and holes

Ivy climbing, tightening its stranglehold

Rise over these bodies, hollow trunks you left to die

On your ascension up into the stars and sky...

Gnarled roots silhouette against the clouds

Black leaves wither and fall to the ground

Floating bodies dam up the streams

As a world falls apart at the seams

Crawl over the gravestones, build life upon a cemetery

Sprawl over the minefields, a cold embrace, it's slow but deadly

As yesterday's empires hit dusk — it's a dawn for tomorrow's!

An unbroken chain of bringers of sorrow...

Let them beware their crowns in these cold waters

Where every necklace turns stranglehold

We'll watch the kings and queens as they're dragged under

By the weight of their carved thrones

Now blackened leaves float in the surf

No one is left to claim the turf

No more monarchs to rule the serfs;

Nothing left of 'em but scurf

And thorned roses crown their foreheads

As they sink into the mud

And drown in their own blood !