This is another cycle
Ashes into water
Death into rebirth
Rebirth into death
Till the moment fades into eternity
The river merges into the ocean

Incessant din of beggars and chants
A skull rolls out of a drainhole
Perched on a wall a vulture
Cogitates upon human avidity
Flesh offered to the flames
Bones and ashes to the mighty river
No leavings for the living

Incessant din of beggars and chants
A skull rolls out of a drainhole
Inside the courtyard
Six barren platforms
Of brown earth turned to ash
Under centuries of fires

Where the earth replenishes
Wiping out another name
Where the earth replenishes
Wiping out another name
To welcome the new

Fresh arrival
Now the ceremonial pyre
Cracks the world's skull
Into bonfire
Now the ceremonial pyre
Cracks the world's skull into bonfire
(It's time to awaken)