This City Will Crumble and Many People Will Die Lyrics

halt your advances, brave conscripts, for danger lies dead ahead
these castle walls can't take much more
this bloodshed could fill ten abbatoirs
three hail mary's on a shell casing rosary just to rest my weary head

and let me tell you something,
we are cut from the same cloth and that cloth just so happens to be
on fire
excuse me, i've been rude, i've lost some manners along the way
but i shan't keep you a second longer
welcome to your new home

though a picture's worth a thousand words
i'd never need that many to spell this out
these photographs are epitaphs of a love of life so grim and black
ember tongues the curtain with a final grand jeté
comes coda of a heart and soul so atrophied at last
ash will decorate your lungs.