A stone was cast upon The forced alliance of iron and clay Ten toes of foundation Was swept away The sculpture of babylonian dreams Crumbles and falls The weight of thousands of years Rests upon what can not stand From my ashes, I arise to burn The pigshead and kill the flies The mountain of God will cover the earth The true zion, under the wings Of the sacred firebird The Sun of righteousness With healing under his wings From my ashes, I arise in a blaze That will desolve their hateful eyes A new world is born as the old one dies Not by flood, but by burning skies The earth shivers From blood drenched surface to melting core From my ashes, like the phoenix I will rise like the s_n