Rite Sleight Of Hand lyrics

Cast in The Colour's shroud

Beneath a veil of mystery

Piety the remains of relic

Where temporal faults

Masquerade in adornment

With but a sleight of hand

Changed in dynamic realm

All who took notice before

Cannot envision it now

For as a magician's motion

The vanishing takes place

Yet the remnants present

Have disappeared from sight

Cloaked in a nation's standard

A shining silvery metal casting

A casket of corporeal remains

Unrevivable in magic's wake

Illusions of grandeur's type

To vex those frail ideations

Stilled upon this occasion

Lowered into earth's bosom

Last breath betrays the wand

No fanfare shall revive them

So pomp and circumstance

Give way to simplest desire

As unobtainable as a pulse

A resurrection waved anon

Giving way to the final truth

The obvious fragility of man

A ceremonial prestidigitation

This rite sleight of hand

Here beneath a patriot's pall

This conjured consecrated convention

Subdued in splendor and devotion

Tears that streak silently veiled

Bewildered by the rite sleight of hand