Name: When Empires Fall
Duration: P00H05M03S
Description: In the end, all of us...the rich, the poor, the strong, the weak, the privileged, the marginalized...we're all the same. No one gets to take anything of this world to the grave. We leave this life the way we entered it, vulnerable, naked, and without a thing.

When Empires Fall

from Bravery by Stories in Braille

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In the end, all of us...the rich, the poor, the strong, the weak, the privileged, the marginalized...we're all the same. No one gets to take anything of this world to the grave. We leave this life the way we entered it, vulnerable, naked, and without a thing.

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Did you build this in a day
All your riches in array
Kings of earth and rulers all
We die beneath the fall

Do your empires love you back
Soak the earth with honest tears
Slaves and sinners, we are free
We all die beneath the tree

We bruise and bleed the same
The strong, the weak, the well, the lame
Our piles of gold and earth
Will fade away to dust and dirt
We crush the feeding trough
We consume beyond enough
But when these empires fall
Only love will be standing tall

Will the earth remember you
When your storehouses are bare
All we keep is all we lose
Only fools will die with spare

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from Bravery, released June 26, 2010
Words by Jay Kim
Music by Stories in Braille
Produced by Jala Tass & Jay Kim
Engineered by Masaki Liu @ One Way Studio

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