The Absence – Echos lyrics

Blinded behind walls of self-built stained glass
Focus enters eyes well-watered
At last, with vision split
Hewn end to end, life-force leaked
From sun-cracked skin

In the blink of an eye, dying too is the quick
This life story to tell with one second to live

The hammer comes down and thunder strikes
Where we burn fast in the build of our lives

Slowing down, to see the mountains you built
This life story to tell with one second to live

Slowing down, to see the time that passed you by
Your life story to tell with only one second to live

Time takes throne to purge the fill of our flight
When days turn into years and a loss of life
Death rattles a mile away
From your restless symphony
The ridden thought unsound,
The shadows that crept lonely all around
The hammer comes down and thunder strikes
Where we burn fast in the build of our lives

Now waiting will just not work
When tales must be told, changed and retold

Slowing down, to see the mountains you built
This life story to tell with one second to live

Slowing down, to see the time that passed you by
Your life story to tell with only one second to live

Slowing down, to see the mountains you built
This life story to tell with one second to live

Slowing down, to see the time that passed you by
Your life story to tell with only one second to live

Slowing down, to see the mountains you built
Slowing down
Your life story to tell (slowing down)
With one second to live