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Album: Through The Ashes Of Empire
Release Date: 16 December 2003
Genre: Groove, Thrash Metal
Label: Roadrunner Records
Producer by: Robb Flynn
- Line Up CD: from left -
* Adam Duce: Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Dave McClain: Drums
* Robert Flynn: Vocal, Guitar
* Phil Demmel: Guitar
01. Imperium - Lyrics:
Hear me now
Bearing down upon a path we choose
Chosen from the start living different rules
Existence something that cherish true
Will not succumb to doubts that I hold onto
Release the fear of my pain
In so much pain give me the will to fight
Every obstacle that I have inside
Release my fear
And hear me now, words I vow
No fucking regrets
Fuck these chains, no goddamn slave
I will be different
I'll stand here defiantly, my middle finger raised
Fuck your prejudice
All my life always I've felt alone
Conditioned to believe that I'm always wrong
Only truth will help to set me free
My every weakness I must turn into strength
Every rage, every tear
Hate in so much hate never that pain will bind me
Ask of myself if I've the will to unwind
Every rage and tear
Hear me now, words I vow
No fucking regrets
Fuck these chains, no goddamn slave
I will be different
I'll stand here defiantly, my middle finger raised
Fuck your prejudice
Carved upon my stone, I will go on
Patience, belief, love will ascend
Just listen to it
Voice so true inside calling
Just take you up and march you on
Keep from falling
Let go your sorrow
Sun will shine, this I promise
Rising tomorrow
Rising
Hear me now, I'm taking back the control
Of my life from societies hold
I vow, no more will I be a slave
Rise to challenge the whole human race
My spirit you cannot break and we won't lose.
02. Bite The Bullet - Lyrics:
I understand your every, fear
Your every pain your every, tear
With every struggle you conquer
Turn heart to steel
And will to iron
You want more?
You'll get it
Determined ferocious
(What?)
Grit down and bite the bullet
When dare to unbind
Smash and redefine
The hate you feel is nothin', more
Than love you feel to win this, war
This battle that rages inside you
With bloodlust
You must unchain your shackles
You want more?
You'll get it
Determined ferocious
(What?)
Grit down and bite the bullet
When dare to unbind
Smash and redefine
Lion hearts
Never give in
Unsatisfy
Every weakness
Lion hearts
Never give in
(Now)
Unsatisfy
(Fy)
Every weakness show
You want more?
You'll get it
Determined ferocious
Grit down and bite the bullet
When dare to unbind
Smash and redefine.
03. Left Unfinished - Lyrics:
Why was I born, sometimes I wish I didn't know?
Been times when I wish sometimes I had never been
Why did you have me or better yet why did you leave?
So, to the people that could fuck but then abandoned me
I'll give to this world what you couldn't give
Love the unwanted, every baby born and discard
Add to the flock
The rejects you dumped on
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
You never could love me, I'm glad that you didn't
My parents that raised me had plenty of that to give
And always, I'll love them forever with all my heart
But to you, for a bad I say
Fuck you, you cocksucker
Fuck you, you whore
I'll live my life the opposite of what you are
Love will be my rock, the rock that I stand on
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
Aaa, whoa, don't try to reach out to me, don't try to call
The man that you created is dead for all you fucking know
You just pretend you've never heard or seen
The name, Lawrence Mathew Cardine
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished.
04. Elegy - Lyrics:
Elegies are to be sung
Winds of Armageddon come
Ignorance within your bliss
Soon you will atone for this
In your carcinogenic haze
Baneful of a newer age
Flowers of a different scent
Poisons of the Earth's lament
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her, oh
Take another deeper breath
Inhale invisible death
Pollution fills the land and sky
Forever you justify
Take a deeper look and see
Nothing's left to future seeds
Icicles melt into blood
Ashes where there once was wood, oh
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her
Pain of life has pulled you under
Left you there to bleed and wonder
Open heart is torn asunder
Wrong the wrongs that you've been suffered
Kill we scream in roaring thunder
Destroy all, leave all things plundered
Acid rain cries her pain
Full bloom, a world gone insane
Her anger, the flower
Plays God with all of our lives
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her, oh
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her.
05. In The Presence Of My Enemies - Lyrics:
I never ask myself
Why injustice be fell me
Accepted of the fact
Try and live a life of my peace
I'm not a violent man
But to those who threaten me
My enemy
For my family, I'll show thee
Death I will fight you too
Wrath provoked you cannot bear
Oh our lives are not your toys
Mercy not a drop to spare
And you of destruction
Of hope's deconstruction
Tell
'Cause innocence lost when
The blood of innocents
Spills
I'm not a violent man
Again I wish to repeat
But every human that takes
Away a child's innocence
Whether it by molest
Or by all war's pointlessness
Killer of life
Corrupter of all that is pure
Oh I want your nose to break
Shattered under clenched fist
Ah Smash face to concrete
Taste the asphalt's gentle kiss
And you of destruction
Of hope's deconstruction
Tell
'Cause innocence lost when
The blood of innocents
Spills
To those that are to blame
Destroyers of every dream
Breaking of hatred's wings
Mars' phoenix begins fading
To those that monger war
Claiming that this is to even scores
This mantra I invoke
No longer this fear will I choke
For, there's no praise for the one who can't know praise
You never quit you're already read that trick
Someday earth you will descend
Not a regret I'll harbor in
Tearless my eyes
Flowerless my hand
And that day when your moment is fleeting
(On your grave I stand)
That thought keeps my heart beating
(On your grave I stand)
And when they put where your casket down
Bitter the sweet within my mouth
Ender of lives
Corrupter of all that's pure
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave.
06. Days Turn Blue To Gray - Lyrics:
Oh, thou have fathered
Son and daughter
Doth beget, yet raised not bother
Paralyzed your children lives
Withered vines of family ties
Self destruction
Makes him function
Crayons and clay
Days turn blue to gray
An' days turn blue to gray
Oh, seventeen when
Family begin'
Drinkin', fightin', heroin
Unquenchable addictions call
Responsible to none above all
Self destruction
Makes him function
Crayons and clay
An' days turn blue to gray
An' days turn blue to gray
Lest I taste
It's sweet grapes
Glass to tongue
Across it tips
Cross my lips
Swallow it down
Please
Won't you love me?
Please help me see
What did I do?
Did I hurt you?
And now that you're gone
Emptiness lives on
The guilt's all I feel
No closure
Father
Mother
Fucker
No closure
No, no, no, no
The strings of my hearts
You pulled on endlessly
This twine is severed
With tragedy
Father
Mother
Destroyer
Destroy her
Your self destruction
What made you feel alive?
Your self destruction
Of your children's lives, lives.
07. Vim - Lyrics:
Words of the righteous we will not bend
The odds keep stacking up against
Strengthen our perseverance
Break down the cycle of errors past
We have to face up to the truth
Relinquish every upper roof
Every ounce of strength grasps
One solid dream
Violent soul will be whole
We have to face up to it
For every second we're alive
Let our light shine
To our grave we must pave
A path for us to rise from
Power surge kills the urge
Life and death collide
Smash all the boundaries that hold us down
Hold on to everything that loves
Let go of anything that starves
People with envy will hold us down
Freedom is just a cut away
Nothing can pass our life away
Every ounce of strength grasps
One solid dream
Violent soul will be whole
We have to face up to it
For every second of our lives
Let our lights shine
To our grave we must pave
A path for us to rise from
Power surge kills the urge
Life and death collide
Oh, we take life's ebb and flow
Testament to the things we know
With the fight we must roll
Strength will follow
Tooth and nail for the ground that we hold
Failures from the start but we still grow
Heads held high, rally for throne
Holding our own
Not just words we'll show you so
I can't remember
These doubts I must dismember
And trust in whole
What we all know
Block out all the hatred
That the world spews
Heads put to the grindstone
Trust in the truth.
08. All Falls Down - Lyrics:
Anticipating, salivating, intoxicating
How I've been waiting
To gently soak in
Your dream that's broken
Caress my hands
Around your throat
When I choke the last gasp of air out of you
I'll mesmerize you, hypnotize you
Paralyze you, my snake eyes blind you
My gentle tickle, my tender prickle
The back of your neck
I stab icicles
My sweetest grin will pull you in
Behind that grin a razor teeth smile
Under your bed
Inside your head
I am the monster in wait
Walk, run
I'm the fear you've become
Pray, hope
Before it's your
Downfall, it all falls down
I patronize you, victimize you
My false pretenses endear me to you
I'm psychopathic, psychosomatic
Believe everything you've heard about me
Ate you alive since you were a child
That's when the monster first appeared in you
So know my name
What is my name?
My name is fear and I'm you
Walk, run
I'm the fear you've become
Pray, hope
Before it's your
Downfall, it all falls down
With faith I crawl
In sadness, I fear what I've become
'Cause after all
I'm acting, pretend my smile on
Before the fall
The pain washes over
Hold on, hold on
Survive
Survive
This
Walk, run
I'm the fear you've become
Fight now
Before it's your
Downfall, it all falls down.
09. Wipe The Tears - Lyrics:
Ask me how it feels
To feel like you're a failure
When everything that's real
Burns the flame in anger
I've heard it all before
I've felt some pain and more
More than you could ever dream
More than it probably seems
I've sat with head in hand
Stressed by my demands
Stomach tied in knots
Alone I've sat and rot
'Cause the pain from all these fears
Has built up all these years
Wipe away the tears
Wipe away the tears
Don't give in
Don't give up
Don't give in
Don't give up
Walk the streets dejected
Alone and left rejected
Time does not care
And sometimes life ain't fair
My head begins to pound
Smashing bottles on the ground
I have lived amongst the garbage
With those who rape and carnage
Had many a promise broken
And broken some myself
The promise I have kept alive
Is keep my inner wealth
With my heart aimed at the world
Destiny I watch unfurl
'Cause I'll wipe away the tears
Wipe away the tears
Don't give in
Don't give up
Don't give in
Don't give up
Opportunities
Wasting life away
Choked upon its dust
Puked out in disgust
Let me tell you how it feels
To feel like you're a failure
Been climbin' out this gutter
For what seems like it's forever
But one thing I must make clear
The struggle of these years
Has made every scar the stronger
My lust for life the longer
I will fight for what I love
And I will fight for those I care
I will fight at anytime
And I will fight anywhere
With my heart aimed at this world
Destiny I watch unfurl
As I'll wipe away the tears
Yes I'll, wipe away the tears
Don't give in
Don't give up
Don't give in
Don't give up
Fuck, fresher through inside
Follow you around
Fuck, fresher through inside
Follow you around
Fuck, fortune.
10. Descend The Shades Of Night - Lyrics:
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
Sitting in the empty black, last slivers of dusk have passed
Accept the dawn to ease the fear, one day I will not be here
Death she comes and with her thread upon me ties a mask for dead
Tears of blood begin to seep, bleed the sky
The shades of night descend
Descend the shades of night
Death shines a golden light
Across a blackened sky
All our hate is a product of a world we created
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
Ashen clouds obscure my brain, doubts begin to turn to shame
Insecureness tears at bliss, I hate me for this weakness
The faith I need to carry on and take the road less travelled on
Resentment swallowed means to drown the poison down
The shades of night descend
Descend the shades of night
Death shines a golden light
Across a blackened sky
All our hate is a product of a world we created
Scream with me, bleed with me
Seethe with me, sing with me
Scream with me, bleed with me
Seethe with me, sing with me
Free me, free me, free me
Descend
Descend the shades of night
Death shines a golden light
Across the blackened sky
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend.
Producer by: Robb Flynn
* Adam Duce: Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Dave McClain: Drums
* Robert Flynn: Vocal, Guitar
* Phil Demmel: Guitar
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01. Imperium - Lyrics:
Hear me now
Bearing down upon a path we choose
Chosen from the start living different rules
Existence something that cherish true
Will not succumb to doubts that I hold onto
Release the fear of my pain
In so much pain give me the will to fight
Every obstacle that I have inside
Release my fear
And hear me now, words I vow
No fucking regrets
Fuck these chains, no goddamn slave
I will be different
I'll stand here defiantly, my middle finger raised
Fuck your prejudice
All my life always I've felt alone
Conditioned to believe that I'm always wrong
Only truth will help to set me free
My every weakness I must turn into strength
Every rage, every tear
Hate in so much hate never that pain will bind me
Ask of myself if I've the will to unwind
Every rage and tear
Hear me now, words I vow
No fucking regrets
Fuck these chains, no goddamn slave
I will be different
I'll stand here defiantly, my middle finger raised
Fuck your prejudice
Carved upon my stone, I will go on
Patience, belief, love will ascend
Just listen to it
Voice so true inside calling
Just take you up and march you on
Keep from falling
Let go your sorrow
Sun will shine, this I promise
Rising tomorrow
Rising
Hear me now, I'm taking back the control
Of my life from societies hold
I vow, no more will I be a slave
Rise to challenge the whole human race
My spirit you cannot break and we won't lose.
02. Bite The Bullet - Lyrics:
I understand your every, fear
Your every pain your every, tear
With every struggle you conquer
Turn heart to steel
And will to iron
You want more?
You'll get it
Determined ferocious
(What?)
Grit down and bite the bullet
When dare to unbind
Smash and redefine
The hate you feel is nothin', more
Than love you feel to win this, war
This battle that rages inside you
With bloodlust
You must unchain your shackles
You want more?
You'll get it
Determined ferocious
(What?)
Grit down and bite the bullet
When dare to unbind
Smash and redefine
Lion hearts
Never give in
Unsatisfy
Every weakness
Lion hearts
Never give in
(Now)
Unsatisfy
(Fy)
Every weakness show
You want more?
You'll get it
Determined ferocious
Grit down and bite the bullet
When dare to unbind
Smash and redefine.
03. Left Unfinished - Lyrics:
Why was I born, sometimes I wish I didn't know?
Been times when I wish sometimes I had never been
Why did you have me or better yet why did you leave?
So, to the people that could fuck but then abandoned me
I'll give to this world what you couldn't give
Love the unwanted, every baby born and discard
Add to the flock
The rejects you dumped on
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
You never could love me, I'm glad that you didn't
My parents that raised me had plenty of that to give
And always, I'll love them forever with all my heart
But to you, for a bad I say
Fuck you, you cocksucker
Fuck you, you whore
I'll live my life the opposite of what you are
Love will be my rock, the rock that I stand on
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
Aaa, whoa, don't try to reach out to me, don't try to call
The man that you created is dead for all you fucking know
You just pretend you've never heard or seen
The name, Lawrence Mathew Cardine
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished
I'll never forget, life you disdain
So, to the parents that bore me this pain
With all those things you left unfinished.
04. Elegy - Lyrics:
Elegies are to be sung
Winds of Armageddon come
Ignorance within your bliss
Soon you will atone for this
In your carcinogenic haze
Baneful of a newer age
Flowers of a different scent
Poisons of the Earth's lament
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her, oh
Take another deeper breath
Inhale invisible death
Pollution fills the land and sky
Forever you justify
Take a deeper look and see
Nothing's left to future seeds
Icicles melt into blood
Ashes where there once was wood, oh
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her
Pain of life has pulled you under
Left you there to bleed and wonder
Open heart is torn asunder
Wrong the wrongs that you've been suffered
Kill we scream in roaring thunder
Destroy all, leave all things plundered
Acid rain cries her pain
Full bloom, a world gone insane
Her anger, the flower
Plays God with all of our lives
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her, oh
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her
A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her.
05. In The Presence Of My Enemies - Lyrics:
I never ask myself
Why injustice be fell me
Accepted of the fact
Try and live a life of my peace
I'm not a violent man
But to those who threaten me
My enemy
For my family, I'll show thee
Death I will fight you too
Wrath provoked you cannot bear
Oh our lives are not your toys
Mercy not a drop to spare
And you of destruction
Of hope's deconstruction
Tell
'Cause innocence lost when
The blood of innocents
Spills
I'm not a violent man
Again I wish to repeat
But every human that takes
Away a child's innocence
Whether it by molest
Or by all war's pointlessness
Killer of life
Corrupter of all that is pure
Oh I want your nose to break
Shattered under clenched fist
Ah Smash face to concrete
Taste the asphalt's gentle kiss
And you of destruction
Of hope's deconstruction
Tell
'Cause innocence lost when
The blood of innocents
Spills
To those that are to blame
Destroyers of every dream
Breaking of hatred's wings
Mars' phoenix begins fading
To those that monger war
Claiming that this is to even scores
This mantra I invoke
No longer this fear will I choke
For, there's no praise for the one who can't know praise
You never quit you're already read that trick
Someday earth you will descend
Not a regret I'll harbor in
Tearless my eyes
Flowerless my hand
And that day when your moment is fleeting
(On your grave I stand)
That thought keeps my heart beating
(On your grave I stand)
And when they put where your casket down
Bitter the sweet within my mouth
Ender of lives
Corrupter of all that's pure
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave, I will stand
On your grave.
06. Days Turn Blue To Gray - Lyrics:
Oh, thou have fathered
Son and daughter
Doth beget, yet raised not bother
Paralyzed your children lives
Withered vines of family ties
Self destruction
Makes him function
Crayons and clay
Days turn blue to gray
An' days turn blue to gray
Oh, seventeen when
Family begin'
Drinkin', fightin', heroin
Unquenchable addictions call
Responsible to none above all
Self destruction
Makes him function
Crayons and clay
An' days turn blue to gray
An' days turn blue to gray
Lest I taste
It's sweet grapes
Glass to tongue
Across it tips
Cross my lips
Swallow it down
Please
Won't you love me?
Please help me see
What did I do?
Did I hurt you?
And now that you're gone
Emptiness lives on
The guilt's all I feel
No closure
Father
Mother
Fucker
No closure
No, no, no, no
The strings of my hearts
You pulled on endlessly
This twine is severed
With tragedy
Father
Mother
Destroyer
Destroy her
Your self destruction
What made you feel alive?
Your self destruction
Of your children's lives, lives.
07. Vim - Lyrics:
Words of the righteous we will not bend
The odds keep stacking up against
Strengthen our perseverance
Break down the cycle of errors past
We have to face up to the truth
Relinquish every upper roof
Every ounce of strength grasps
One solid dream
Violent soul will be whole
We have to face up to it
For every second we're alive
Let our light shine
To our grave we must pave
A path for us to rise from
Power surge kills the urge
Life and death collide
Smash all the boundaries that hold us down
Hold on to everything that loves
Let go of anything that starves
People with envy will hold us down
Freedom is just a cut away
Nothing can pass our life away
Every ounce of strength grasps
One solid dream
Violent soul will be whole
We have to face up to it
For every second of our lives
Let our lights shine
To our grave we must pave
A path for us to rise from
Power surge kills the urge
Life and death collide
Oh, we take life's ebb and flow
Testament to the things we know
With the fight we must roll
Strength will follow
Tooth and nail for the ground that we hold
Failures from the start but we still grow
Heads held high, rally for throne
Holding our own
Not just words we'll show you so
I can't remember
These doubts I must dismember
And trust in whole
What we all know
Block out all the hatred
That the world spews
Heads put to the grindstone
Trust in the truth.
08. All Falls Down - Lyrics:
Anticipating, salivating, intoxicating
How I've been waiting
To gently soak in
Your dream that's broken
Caress my hands
Around your throat
When I choke the last gasp of air out of you
I'll mesmerize you, hypnotize you
Paralyze you, my snake eyes blind you
My gentle tickle, my tender prickle
The back of your neck
I stab icicles
My sweetest grin will pull you in
Behind that grin a razor teeth smile
Under your bed
Inside your head
I am the monster in wait
Walk, run
I'm the fear you've become
Pray, hope
Before it's your
Downfall, it all falls down
I patronize you, victimize you
My false pretenses endear me to you
I'm psychopathic, psychosomatic
Believe everything you've heard about me
Ate you alive since you were a child
That's when the monster first appeared in you
So know my name
What is my name?
My name is fear and I'm you
Walk, run
I'm the fear you've become
Pray, hope
Before it's your
Downfall, it all falls down
With faith I crawl
In sadness, I fear what I've become
'Cause after all
I'm acting, pretend my smile on
Before the fall
The pain washes over
Hold on, hold on
Survive
Survive
This
Walk, run
I'm the fear you've become
Fight now
Before it's your
Downfall, it all falls down.
09. Wipe The Tears - Lyrics:
Ask me how it feels
To feel like you're a failure
When everything that's real
Burns the flame in anger
I've heard it all before
I've felt some pain and more
More than you could ever dream
More than it probably seems
I've sat with head in hand
Stressed by my demands
Stomach tied in knots
Alone I've sat and rot
'Cause the pain from all these fears
Has built up all these years
Wipe away the tears
Wipe away the tears
Don't give in
Don't give up
Don't give in
Don't give up
Walk the streets dejected
Alone and left rejected
Time does not care
And sometimes life ain't fair
My head begins to pound
Smashing bottles on the ground
I have lived amongst the garbage
With those who rape and carnage
Had many a promise broken
And broken some myself
The promise I have kept alive
Is keep my inner wealth
With my heart aimed at the world
Destiny I watch unfurl
'Cause I'll wipe away the tears
Wipe away the tears
Don't give in
Don't give up
Don't give in
Don't give up
Opportunities
Wasting life away
Choked upon its dust
Puked out in disgust
Let me tell you how it feels
To feel like you're a failure
Been climbin' out this gutter
For what seems like it's forever
But one thing I must make clear
The struggle of these years
Has made every scar the stronger
My lust for life the longer
I will fight for what I love
And I will fight for those I care
I will fight at anytime
And I will fight anywhere
With my heart aimed at this world
Destiny I watch unfurl
As I'll wipe away the tears
Yes I'll, wipe away the tears
Don't give in
Don't give up
Don't give in
Don't give up
Fuck, fresher through inside
Follow you around
Fuck, fresher through inside
Follow you around
Fuck, fortune.
10. Descend The Shades Of Night - Lyrics:
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
Sitting in the empty black, last slivers of dusk have passed
Accept the dawn to ease the fear, one day I will not be here
Death she comes and with her thread upon me ties a mask for dead
Tears of blood begin to seep, bleed the sky
The shades of night descend
Descend the shades of night
Death shines a golden light
Across a blackened sky
All our hate is a product of a world we created
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
Ashen clouds obscure my brain, doubts begin to turn to shame
Insecureness tears at bliss, I hate me for this weakness
The faith I need to carry on and take the road less travelled on
Resentment swallowed means to drown the poison down
The shades of night descend
Descend the shades of night
Death shines a golden light
Across a blackened sky
All our hate is a product of a world we created
Scream with me, bleed with me
Seethe with me, sing with me
Scream with me, bleed with me
Seethe with me, sing with me
Free me, free me, free me
Descend
Descend the shades of night
Death shines a golden light
Across the blackened sky
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend
The shades of night descend.
