Church in flames

We will wake up as others one day, Likely even in some other world, And the desert sun's heat will feel cold on our skin, While in glaciers we'll burn with a blue flame unfurled

In the river the waters are different, In our veins there's a different blood, And in others — yet still the same, ever since — Has been born a different love

In a different way stars will be shining, And the one sitting still by the fire Will remember the dreams of a lifetime, He will never return to them — never go higher

Only death watches on, never changing, By the bottomless pit standing tall, And with skeletal hands she keeps waving, While behind her an empty church burns through it all