Prelude to Ruin" by Fates Warning



Look to sunrise man tell me what you see

The eagle has flown underground abandoned you abandoned me

Fifty two burning stars are burning up the sky

Blazing torch falls to the ocean bottom where black predictions lie



Have you faith in scripture visions of kings

Reaper of reality your destiny the sisters sing

Vultures scavenge the subconcious of your mind

Their ally is time for you to fall and yield your mind to the cynic



They should be held so high and not looked down upon

They are the root of the country

the roots so firm and tranquil

when will the spirits be welcomed

listen, the music is heard again



when there are lofty high roof tops

carved walls and yielding crops

When the palace is wild for lusting

When the forest is wild for hunting

Existence of any one thing

has never been but the prelude to ruin



Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance

Regrets illuminate too late, Depth beyond sin is fathomed

wandering through the devils field sowing his seed



Guardian angel guide us through the night

we compel his long constant fight

The moerea they call your destiny

the sisters all of three

Clotho she spun the web to live

the thread so tentative

Lachesis she measured out the years

Atropus cuts the thread with her shears



Time time time an imagery line

mine not yours nor yours mine

They lead the blind back to the mothers womb

tomb of the unborn child

Coming events cast their shadows before wintery wind

The eye of the storm witness the past, the future holds more prelude to ruin