Novus Spero - The Way of All Flesh Lyrics

It was 5 a.m. on New Year's Day
Parked on the shoulder
Of the Pacific Coast Highway
The swell of the ocean
Like a funeral choir
As we started to kiss
Your lips a funeral pyre
Bitter with ashes
Of defeated desires
But a sliver of light shone
Through the sadness of your eyes
And I swear you had a soul

In the cold comfort
Of my trembling embrace
You whispered your worries
The ultimate fate
Of our lofty ambitions
And our carnal designs
The fire we've built
From the fallen scraps of sky
It blows away without warning
Without fanfare or mourning
In a burst of heat and light
And then nothing

That's the way
The way of all flesh

It's the virginity you can't reclaim
The child you can't be again
The wonders you could not explain
The animals inside us all
Little stardust fetish dolls
Forever at the beck and call
Of pain and desire

The way
The way of all flesh