• Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
    Pain into numbness, love into lust
    The death and destruction of all that is real
    Lie in my soul, so all I can feel
    Is the pieces crumbling, my world falling apart,
    The weight and decayal of my slow-beating heart.

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
    I'm not ready to let go, but I know that I must
    I have to part with the past and wave it goodbye
    Feel myself break like the clouds in the sky.
    I have to take all the empty promises and let them burn.
    Because all of it's all gone now, and it's never to return.

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
    I've released all my dependencies, broken all my trust
    I've emptied myself so I could start anew.
    Washed my mouth out with soap and cleared all memories of you.
    I wish on the stars twinkling against the pitch black
    I pray and I hope that it never comes back.

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
    I look at myself and shiver in disgust,
    Because I've been a hero and I've been a quitter,
    I can sometimes be unreasonably bitter.
    All these years of betrayal and theft
    I look back and wonder if I have anything left.