Winking Out

All across the universe, the stars are winking out.
So we set off in spaceships, to see what that's about.
We fought across the galaxy, to bring them back the light,
But we didn't tread carefully, swallowed up by the night.

And all across the sky, they yet burn, they yet hunger.
All across the sky, they yet seek, they yet fight, they drag under.

No more dreaming of a world free from war, free from slaughter.
No more hunting like a hound for a torch, for a beacon in the water.
No more fighting like a fiend, like a god, like a sword -
Like a bow, like a beast, like a fist,
Like a man, so alive with the bloodshed.

All across the universe, the voices raise in horror,
For the stars are winking out, the light is fading from them.
We tried to save them from it, tried to keep their fires glowing,
But as they fade our fires are the only ones worth knowing.

No more dreaming of a world free from fear, free from chaos.
No more cutting like a knife through the sky, like a bullet from the madness.
No more praying like a fool, for a god, for a sword -
For a fiend, for a bow, for a beast,
For a fist, of a man in the darkness.

Hope is slipping through an open door,
treading where no life has gone before.
Hope is slipping through an open door,
so let's all cry, as there's no hope no more.