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VERSE 1

A weary traveller from an antique land

Spoke of ruins in the desert sands

The shattered remnants of a god-like king

Had lain forgotten, slowly vanishing

To nothing

CHORUS

Empires fall

Dynasties crumble

Time conquers all

Ozymandias

A face in the sand

Reigns over nothingness

VERSE 2

A frown of sneer displaying cold command

Sculpted in fear by an enslaved hand

No hint of mercy written on that face

No hint of kindness touched that silent place

Not ever

CHORUS 2

Empires fall

Dynasties crumble

Time conquers all

Ozymandias

The face in the sand

Ruler of no one

Empires fall

Dynasties crumble

Time conquers all

King of all kings

Buried in sand

Reigns over nothingness

MIDDLE 8 I (1.56)

Buried deep

Under silence

Crowned in dust

Time relentless

Broken dreams

Etched in granite

Thrones of stone

Forgotten and decayed

PRE-MIDDLE 8

Nothing eternal, nothing shall stand

Only the silence haunting the land

MIDDLE 8 I

Behold the desolation, a legacy of pride

The desert cares not for another king's demise

Nought but a memory, ambition’s echo dies

Their temples crowned in dust where fallen empires cry

Where once they carved dominion, nothing now shall stand

Their kingdoms fade as phantoms lost upon the land

The mighty fell to time’s inexorable hand

Their monuments lie broken shattered in the sand

MIDDLE 8 II (4:08)

Eight words scratched on a pedestal

That fade over time

Two crumbling legs of stone

A natural crime

CHORUS

Empires fall

Dynasties crumble

Time conquers all

Ozymandias

The face in the sand

Ruler of no one

Empires fall

Dynasties crumble

Time conquers all

King of all kings

Buried in sand

Ruler forgotten

Reigns over endless nothingness

EXIT

Slowly vanishing

To nothing

No hint of kindness touched that silent place

Look on my works, ye mighty

And despair