Wake up now, this is the time you've waited for      Far below, where shadows fester   As they grow an army thousands strong   Obsessed by right and wrong   They sense their time is coming near      So they turn towards the light   From their region of the night   Marching on and on   They near the air, it won't be long      You know you're on the way out   It's just a matter of time   You thought you'd rule the world forever   Long live the king and don't spare the loser      After all, you're not what you thought you were at all   You're just a natural fact, another cul-de-sac   On nature's hard unfeeling trail   Now all those dreams of old will be stories left untold   Cut off in your prime, extinct until the end of time      You know you're on the way out   It's just a matter of time   You thought you'd rule the world forever   Long live the king but don't spare the loser now      Now the host emerges and a shadow starts to fall   Not one knows what hit them, none can see at all   Even as the end approaches still they're not aware   How can you fight a foe so deadly   When you don't even know it's there?      And now that the job is almost done   Maybe some escape, no, not even one      You know they're on the way out   It's just a matter of time   You thought you'd rule the world forever   Long live the king and don't spare the loser