Lyrics:

[verse 1]
in the desert artillery takes it's time
pounds and recoils, shell after shell
sunk in the sand, a shattered statue lies
nothing survives in the desert, nothing survives
stamped out these lifeless things
mockery smashed on the pedestal
no words appear
no words appear

[verse 2]
nothing beside remains
’round the decay of that colossal wreck
boundless and bare, the lone and level sands
stretch far away
my name is blank, a creature of bush and blair
darkness and despair, darkness and despair