Fade Into nothing Cities decay The grief And sickness Is buried Sink into the trees The age of ruin is over and we revel Symmetry returns From sea to shining sea Nightmares drift back Down that river of time To the dawn of man And I wonder what went wrong Their souls gleamed / hearts of gold Their hands crushed / souls of coal That spark of light In their eyes was destruction Sky of fire Warms our new dawn And the kingdom sways Our sovereign world Man is all but forgotten And we live Together as one Until that bright star fades From orange to red to white And we return home To the stardust Dreams drift ahead Up that river of time To the end of all And i wonder what where we'll go Our lights dim / bodies to dust Ma** collides / event horizon That spark of light In the end is destruction Way down I remember the way it is always been Way down I remember my place in the stars was black Way down I remember how it all began Way down I remember that lone singular black ma**