Ragnarok (Pretentious rap)

As a hard rain falls and drowns a dying flower;
The graves upon graves stacked below are by the hour
Rotting like your mind when you've given up your power
Like the intellect decays from the acedia of a coward.
What has the past then died for if atop the ivory tower
All minds, all thinking is concentrated outward
Cuz our souls can't bear to listen to the never-ending shower
Of all of man's creations coming crashing down around us?

Let us build these empires on broken bones and broken minds
Dancing joyfully upon the graves where even dying has died
A tarantella atop those who've been forgotten by time,
Lives less gone now than having never been alive.
A cynical hubris given to self loathing and pride
Introspection is masturbation when there's nothing inside
A fatalistic weltschmerz is as innocent as the divine
What do you think you live and die for when the apocalypse is nigh?

The sun dawns on this floundering Earth, a twitching fish
Simargl, gargle, rinse, wash rinse
A solar flaring wolf descends upon the world
Rotationally energizing and demoralizing this oyster's pearl
From the ashes of the past let the ziggurat of hash
A sacrificial Franken-phoenix that's been burnin' through the stash
Be resurrected presently as a facsimile of intellect
We razed our cities to plant more trees but now being circumspect
What was once called ennui we know mostly as self-disrespect
Cuz if you're not living to die well then what else would do you expect?