not so long ago there was a time 
the naive animal was a wiser thing 
and these devils that we accept as reality 
did not exist here before 
nor do I think they were meant to be 

they have enshrouded themselves 
with the comforts of wealth 
inside this temple of material things 
which they cling to 
all because the hand 
was much easier to see than the spirit 
and upon the educated discovery of this 
they have made their decision 
not only for themselves 
but for everyone else as well 

everything you've ever come to experience 
to anyone else here has never been 
and will never be 

life does not exist 
memory is nothing more than photographs 
a looking glass to see just where you've been 
not what you've been there for 
realize your insignificance to the universe 
and to infinity 

you will have then cast away 
the pride of all these things you held so dear 
agony and pleasure are a suffering to one another here 
the wisest is the fool who realizes he knows 
nothing, nothing 

turn your back on this misconception 
that the body is the temple 
it's just the tool of the soul 
the brain is only the house of the mind 
and soon you'll have to give back 
everything you've borrowed for this lifetime 
only then you'll find 
you have spent all this time 
struggling for the wrong things 
and all of your works here have been nothing 

everything is nothing