oh, don't let that burning sky come
and fall down upon me

Once, long ago, was someone greater -- until with a strike, their heart was shattered, their insides gutted, lost to an empty hollowness where the slumbered, non-existing, for eons. Whomever they once were, bright-eyed, now long gone as an empty man who wanders in a cycle of searching, searching, searching, until inevitably, he always dies. In the clutches of the darkest and deepest pit, drowning in the hold of tar and shame, his faith breaks, the illusion shatters, and he smiles.