race you to the top behold the distant streets below times i hoped would last forever never older grow they took my peace they took my name my family in a pallid robe and cryptic code my destiny secret sign shadows in the moonlight clandestine flashes of a pale white climb the highest peaks of history on venetian stone i climb and clamber cloaked in dark pools of crimson sin on swollen throats i leave my mark i take their blood i hear their last confessions seep i m the shrouded face of reckoning that haunts their sleep secret sign shadows in the moonlight clandestine flashes of a pale white climb the highest peaks of history requiescat in pace take my revelations make them your salvation take my revelations make them your salvation on shores of gold my tale will end a love to hold a life to spend on shores of gold my tale will end a love to hold a life to spend secret sign shadows in the moonlight clandestine flashes of a pale white climb the highest peaks of history