Illusions lyrics

All men live with illusions

To cope with themselves

To deal with the others

So none know this reality

It stands before us all

Always there, ever wakeful

Yet inescapable in time

All equalizing to sublime

For those who are near

Often far from one another

That they would not disturb

That kingdom that came

So remote are the dreams

That now are but memories

Made so by the ruts cut deep

The laden wagons ambitious

No dues are then paid off

Bit a brief truce with Satan

For the time to ignore dear

And pursue the perceived

But then the years fall away

As dead autumn leaves do

And all is laid barren, chilled

In the numbing coming cold

The illusions give way too

Slowly they show ife's fate

Destined since its first breath

Reality fleeting, unrecognized

So much so these needed

That they remain until the end

When last gasp takes hold

To smash a false impression