From the album In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns Oh in the night skies burns a darkness that will enlighten all of mankind, as we know. And it will glow with so bright a light showing us a clear path once invisible. But in the stage of decay... Enshrine the forgotten secrets of the earth buried by angels in starlit chambers. This is the sound; listen for the sound of the trumpets. Through the eyes of creation I see the final stages of decay beneath the burning palaces of heaven and into the pits of sands I watched the kingdom come crumbling down. Wrought their own destruction Subterranean origin Cataclysm casting the world Into the dark The winds of wrath are howling into the cold wastes