When the sky is clear I'm like the darkest light And I will disappear When nights turn cold Death resets the frontier Here comes the darkness It's the source of all your fear Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark And as the natural fear in children is increased with tales So is the other ♪ Death is an evil the gods have so judged Had it been good, they would all have died Wonder is the foundation of human intelligence Inquiry, the progress, ignorance, the end Wonder is the foundation of human intelligence Inquiry, the progress, ignorance, the end Fear is the mother of all gods Fear is the mother of all gods Religion converts despair Which succumbs into resignation Which then submits, destroying all your dreams Hope is the worst of all evils For it prolongs the torment of man Devoid of any logic, destroying all his needs Your enemy is fear crawling from within We evolve as copies of other imitations Umbilically attached to a collective insanity ♪ Fear is the mother of all your gods Fear is the mother of all your gods Religion converts despair Which succumbs into resignation Which then submits, destroying all your dreams Hope is the worst of all evils For it prolongs the torment of man Devoid of any logic, destroying all his needs To our ashes, glory comes too late Fear is the mother of all gods To our ashes, glory comes too late Fear is the mother of all gods Religion glorifies the dogma Of searching in a dark cellar at midnight For a black cat that isn't there Religion glorifies the dogma Of searching in a dark cellar at midnight For a black cat that isn't there Late at night When we grow sincere I'm like the darkest light And all gods disappear When nights turn cold And you feel you don't belong here In the darkness untold I'll keep your secrets too All gods shall fall in distrust of merits Once we're awakened, they will cease to exist