Glory to Ashes - Magnum

No ransom will pay

For the lost sacrifice

This grotesque ballet

Performed most every night

They shout liberty

Walk pathways through the dust

And captivity

Would never be discussed

Not a sound

When they all fall down

Oh, glory to ashes

No, they won’t survive

When the whole thing crashes

No one can describe

Someone made the crosses

Then when the silence broke

They just held up their glasses

Not a word was spoke

Someone’s mother wept

As she turned back the sheets

A time to reflect

Where her son used to sleep

The whirlwind has come

And years have passed away

What have we become?

Why did it end this way?

Not a sound

Or we all fall down

Oh, glory to ashes

No, they won’t survive

When the whole thing crashes

No one can describe

Someone made the crosses

Then when the silence broke

They just held up their glasses

Not a word was spoke

Oh, glory to ashes

No, they won’t survive

When the whole thing crashes

No one can describe

Someone made the crosses

Then when the silence broke

They just held up their glasses

Not a word was spoke