Lyrics Fate's Pantomime - Operus

Fate's Pantomime

Play the game
Just as the same all do
Take a name and assume a costume
Uniform in the strangest of ways
We are all deformed by this tangled embrace
And still we feed upon the damned
We feel we bleed
?
in our head
So play the game
Join in the pantomime
That’s driven us insane
Over the long winding tale of time
?
as old as the sky
With no memory of when we first
Opened our eyes and saw what life was doing
Pursue
Consume
Replicate
[Lonely for my first dream
The state of my first breath
Escaped it into life]?
As if by the hands of death
So, virus, tell me, what is my fate?
Pursue
Consume
Replicate
Billions of years have produced us
So why have we built up such a small cage
Our selves hold the memories of every past life
Gladly betrayed to make us behave
But billions of years won’t forsake us
These outline the valid potentials inside
So try as you might with your coercive games
You won’t build a cage for our lives
In life we assume existence external
Where no one has been or will ever go
As if what we perceive is some sort of echo
We are reflected forever alone
So it seems there are more of us in here
Different voices arise at difference times
Dare I say it?
I am legion, anything but unified
We opened our eyes and saw what life was doing
What are we doing?
Pursue
Consume
Replicate
So play the game
Join in the pantomime
That’s driven us insane
Over the long winding tale of time
?
as old as the sky
With no memory of when we first
Played the game
Just as the same all do
Take a name and assume a costume
Uniform in the strangest of ways
We are all deformed by this tangled embrace
And still we feed upon the damned
We feel we bleed
?
in our head