I am the Law

[Verse 1 | slowly, narratively] I step in when the noise of day has died, When the doctor turns his tired gaze. I don't match your haste or all your strife, I don't wait for anyone to praise. I watch the light fade slowly in their eyes, As the final cry is torn away, But in my endless, ever-silent skies, This world is just a breath, a flash, a ray. [Chorus | Spoken Word with reverb and echo | instruments pause] I am not the foe. I am the law. [instruments resume] [Verse 2] I stand beside the silence of the bed, Where even shadows fear to bend their head. You call it grief, the weight upon your head, I call it — the final step, the path you tread. Your souls are snow that melts upon the wind, Your flesh is only ashes and the sand. I came not to erase or to rescind, I came to place the final stroke — as planned. [Chorus | Spoken Word with reverb and echo | instruments pause] I am not the foe. I am the law. [instruments resume] [Bridge | dark and slow] [Outro | Spoken Word | fading echo, instruments pause] The final grain of sand will fall and cease, The wind will smooth each name and fade away. And then my own turn will arrive, and peace, And silence will then hold its final sway. [END | no further sounds | no outro music]