we choke on the poison wind well these sad eyes can tell the story walk along an empire's path and you said you'd come back again but you talk to yourself believing the fear that drives your greed when you discover the empty place a hollow world of instant pleasures the way you were so disturbed what's your worth? what is it you heard? try to smile as they devour our youth with a diamond eye you gaze at the blackened plains spread out beneath you when the lights go out you'll see the world as you have never known it and i talked to myself believing that you would come back again