If Eternity Should Fail

[Intro] N.C. Here is the soul of a man N.C. Here in this place for the taking N.C. Clothed in white stand in the light N.C. Here is the soul of a man N.C. Time to speak with the shaman again N.C. Conjure the jester again N.C. Black dog in the ruins is howling my name N.C. So here is the soul of a man [Interlude] Dm C x4 [Verse 1]    When the world was virgin  before the coming of men    Just a solar witness    the beginning of the end    From a world of magma    to a cold rock face    The ascent of madness   and a human raaaaaaace    We are strange believers    all of us    There are stranger truths    immortal lust    We rise from slumber    he calls our name    Recalls our number    abide with paaaaaaain [Interlude] Bb Am x2 [Chorus] Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail [Verse 2]    To god’s illusion    which I recall     Was our delusion    before the fall     The angels come    and the angels go     But the lord of light    shining beloooooooow     Eternal blackness     beyond the stars    We think our wisdom     will get that far     At the master’s table    the table’s bare    No land of plenty     devastation despaaaaair [Chorus] Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail [Instrumental Break] Em x8 Em x4 x2 Am x4 [Chorus] Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail Reef in a sail at the edge of the world If eternity should fail Waiting in line for the ending of time If eternity should fail [Outro] Good day my name is Necropolis I am formed of the dead I am the harvester of the soul meat And I suck the lives from around my bed My own two sons I gave them breath And I filled their living corpses with my bile What humanity I knew I have long forgotten For me eternity is nothing but a short while