Echoes in the Halls of Vanity Lyrics

I have called upon my Lord and he answered with spite
With visions of endless halls echoing with the sound of vanity
Desolation!

This being is a choir of endless woes
Pleading for reason, compassion, and meaning
All of it slowly torn into silence
In the walls of emptiness

This being is a foundation of flesh
To pave the way for a greater temple
To create new is to destroy the old
To ascend, is to first descend into nothingness

The meaningfulness of all life was to seek redemption
And I have found it in perdition!

The bitter woe what we call hope, starves in time
This earthly shell what we call life, shatters with it
If it is redemption what I have yearned
I have found it in damnation