Rotting Christ - Thine Is the Kingdom lyrics

This is the dead land this is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star

Is it like this in death's other kingdom
Waking alone at the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

The eyes are not here there are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

Between the idea and the reality
Between the motion and the act
Falls the Shadow for Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception and the creation
Between the emotion and the response
Falls the Shadow life is very long

Between the desire and the spasm
Between the potency and the existence
Between the essence and the descent
For Thine is the Kingdom