A dark veil Listless guise Fortuitous told Or planned design Rotten Sullen Beguiled Forgotten The plight of mind Ripple in time Grandiose lie No end in sight The plight of mind Ripple in time Grandiose lie Quid est vida Quid est vida Dance of decay Enlightened knot Fruitless tree Tethered no more Rotten Sullen Beguiled Forgotten The plight of mind Ripple in time Grandiose lie No end in sight The plight of mind Ripple in time Grandiose lie Quid est vida Quid est vida Was I asleep What is this all for Let us not speak Of the ills of man Suppose we repent Our being born Who would lament Our absence from here Pity we haven’t got a bit of rope