A Fool's Paradise Symphony X

What's become of the world
The colors unfurl
Revealing a blackened haze

Conditioned to fear
The voice that we hear
Calling the end of days

Millions of souls under control
Like pawns to a king
Led by a string
To the final hour

Oh, empire of the sea
Lords of technology who fell into the void
Oh shall it be (oh shall it be) as it was before?
Tragedy on every shore

Is this the end of all we know?
Innocence lost so long ago
Woven in dreams
The darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny

Decades of greed, plague, famine and war
We can't go on like this anymore
Living like fools, chaos will rule
This eternal paradise

Death by design
Altering birth
Trends of the modern age

The wisdom of life
Erased from the Earth
In a reckless rampage

Oh, empire of the sea
Lords of technology bring death onto the Earth
Oh shall it be (oh shall it be) as it was before?
Tragedy on every shore

Is this the end of all we know?
Innocence lost so long ago
Woven in dreams
The darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny

Decades of greed, plague, famine and war
We can't go on like this anymore
Living like fools, chaos will rule
This eternal paradise

Dies irae
Dies illa
Solvet saeclum
In favilla

Decades of greed, plague, famine and war
We can't go on like this anymore
Living like fools, chaos will rule
Eternal paradise

Is this the end of all we know?
Innocence lost so long ago
Woven in dreams
The darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny

Decades of greed, plague, famine and war
We can't go on like this anymore
Lost in the night, fading from sight
Is this the final setting sun?

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