[Intro – whisper, layered voice-over] Scrolls are silent... The wind sings of ruin... All is dust... [Verse I] Oh crimson minds, forged in flame, Burning bright with forbidden name. They reached beyond the veil of time, And paid the price for every crime. Books bled light, the runes betrayed, By brother’s wrath and daemon’s blade. On Prospero the silence fell — A golden lie, a psychic shell. [Chorus] All is dust... In silver robes they fade, From crimson stars they turn, Their souls to silence laid. All is dust... The flesh has flown the flame, But still their spirits yearn, To whisper one last name... [Verse II] Their father wept behind the glass, A king of light bound to the past. The wolves came howling, blind with law, To tear the truth with fang and claw. One spell to shield, one oath to bind, And all they were was cast to mind. Eternal prisons sealed with rust — One breath, and all is dust... [Bridge – operatic interlude with choral echo] “By the nine and burning sigil, We speak, though we are stone._ We see beyond the warp’s eclipse,_ But dream forever alone...”_ [Final Chorus – crescendo with choir and orchestra] All is dust... But memory still sings, On wings of broken fate, And shattered golden rings. All is dust... Their fire still remains, Behind the veil of stars, In echoes bound by chains... [Outro – whispered, fading:] All is dust... but dust remembers...
