Walk on Vanity Ruins

The track begins with reflections on tragedy and the audience's role, stating "All go on only toward death."

It then describes a "madly dancing man" hearing "unhearable words" and being drawn to a "beloved's grave," potentially finding "true madness at last."

The lyrics mention someone "playing at death" and finding "true death at the last," having killed a "nameless lover" who "pierced a heart rent by sorrow."

The track questions whether lies invite truth and if verity wears a mask of falsehood, referring to listeners as "pitiful, miserable ones" still amidst lies.

It concludes by questioning the yearning for death when it does not come and the desire to attend to a beloved, framing life and death as a "game of turning white to black and black to white."