Pyramid Scheme lyrics

That men should prove their greatness

By an eternal pile of stones

Bartered with the lives and limbs

Of those pressed into lifelong service

The few that kept ruled over the many

So vain, so fearful of life's end

Between ego and denial they lie

Filled with fallacies and furniture

Sealed in eternal darkness

Such monumental fiascos remain

In the distant heat and barren sand

Centers of deterioration stalled

Yet unimpeded by death's constant

Oblivion interrupted by thieves unsavory

Releasing them from mortal tethers

Ambitions now lie putrified

A tetrahedrian tragedy

A canoptic clutter enshrouded

In the dust of eons passing

Cannot escape inevidable end

Cannot regain that once breath

That all the earth's riches would lend

That could reclaim from death's hand

A pulse faded long ago, in a far off land

Where is ambitious hope now

The seemingly simple step beyond

Between the cracks and crevices

Lie the whispers of the winds calling

Calling, searching for signs within

Only to be beguiled by echoes empty

Confinded in corridors narrow

A prison for the ever departed

Ensnaring the faulted mortal

With a continuing malevelence

A concentration of power sought

That was better left behind

So corruption deteriorates on

Where there is but shadows and dust

Millennia will render to piles of dust

Resolved in breaths of time's spanning

And what was briefly stayed

Will inexorably come to pass

Unarrested by a pyramid scheme