Ashes in the Kaleidoscope

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[Verse 1]
Cracked mosaics on the highway
Rust on every holy sign
Billboards peeling
Saints with nosebleeds
Laughing at this crooked spine
Smoke curls out of empty windows
Shopping carts in poisoned streams
Golden arches bent and broken
Flicker in my fever dreams

[Chorus]
All these ruins of man
Paper crowns in the sand
We were building forever
With these trembling hands
All these ruins of man
Turn to dust as we stand
Oh the vagaries of life
Cut us down where we land

[Verse 2]
Children digging in a landfill
Call it treasure
Call it home
Old men sleep on fallen statues
Marble eyes
Eroded thrones
History’s a burning library
Ash and letters in my lungs
Every lesson
Every warning
Tasted once
Then comes undone

[Chorus]
All these ruins of man
Paper crowns in the sand
We were building forever
With these trembling hands
All these ruins of man
Turn to dust as we stand
Oh the vagaries of life
Cut us down where we land

[Bridge]
Is it fate
Is it random? (hey)
Loaded dice in a shaking hand
Are we gods
Are we phantoms?
Shouting at a silent land
Spin the wheel
Watch it crumble
Every tower
Every plan
Only question left to carry:
Did we ever understand?

[Chorus]
All these ruins of man
Paper crowns in the sand
We were building forever
With these trembling hands
All these ruins of man
Fade like smoke from the strand
Oh the vagaries of life
Leave a ghost in the sand