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Words sent from suffocating voids

Burnt worlds, muffled voices

Trying to share our own burden

Children beware, your bones will dry

Who'll come and dig them up in the furnace?

Stars burn in quick descent

Our dead behold the reddest dawn

Time is grinding the strongest walls

No time to bury your remains

No planets left to save our kind

And on the brink we stand

Facing the end

As did a million empires before ours

Dead dust speaking from the past

Transmitting to all lifeforms

In notes and runes forgotten

Old ghosts floating into space

Hoary spheres burnt, charged with wisdom

A Million light-years of void

Trying to reach out through centuries

While all is ashen… and ground to silence

Dead dust speaking from the past

Transmitting to all lifeforms

In notes and runes forgotten

Old ghosts floating into space

Hoary spheres burnt, charged with wisdom

Message in a stainless steel bottle

A list of our beautiful failures

The last attempt at grandeur,

Before all collapses to none

A golden record sent through space

To account for billions of lives

An epic speckle of dust into the void