Fate's Pantomime Songtext
von Operus

Play the game
Just as the saying of old will
Take a name
And assume a costume
Uniformed
In the strangest of ways
We are all informed
By this tangled embrace
And still we feed
Upon the dead
We fear, we bleed
Our hunger echoes in our heads


So play the game
Join in the pantomime
That′s driven us insane
Over the long, winding tale of time
We, this family
As old as the sky
With no memory
Of when we first
Opened our eyes and we saw what life was doing

Pursue, consume, replicate

Long before my first scream
Escaped on my first breath
Sculpted into life
As if by the hands of death
No virus telling me
What is my fate but
Pursue, consume, replicate

Billions of years have produced us
So why have we built up such a small cage?
Our cells hold the memories of every past life
Gladly betrayed, but to make us behave
But billions of years won't forsake us
These underdeveloped potentials inside
So try as you might with your poise and games
Open the cage for our minds


In life, we assume
Existence extern
Where no one has been
Or will ever go
As if what we perceive
Is some sort of echo
We are reflected
Forever alone
Though it seems there are more of us in here
Different voices arise at different times
Dare I say, I am legion
Anything but unified

We opened our eyes and we saw what life was doing
What are we doing?
Pursue, consume, replicate

Play the game
Join in the pantomime
That′s driven us insane
Over the long, winding tale of time
We, this family
As old as the sky
With no memory
Of when we first
Play the game
Just as the saying of old will
Take a name
And assume a costume
Uniformed
In the strangest of ways
We are all informed
By this tangled embrace
And still we feed
Upon the dead
We fear, we bleed
Our hunger echoes in our heads