Buried by Time and Dust

The speaker seems to be a dead or undead figure reflecting on an endless existence. The mood is bleak and isolated: there is little hope of returning to light or reaching another place, and death feels like an expected destination. As the lyrics develop, the speaker moves from remembering an ancient past to describing a present defined by waiting, wandering, and silence.

“Buried by time and dust” suggests more than physical burial: the speaker has been forgotten as the years pass. “Wandering out of space” and “out of time” make the speaker seem disconnected from ordinary human life and its familiar limits. The reference to missing human blood implies a monstrous or vampiric identity, while the “silence of peoples’ tears” evokes grief that is private and unheard.

The lyrics can be read as a horror narrative about a creature who has survived for ages, but they also express loneliness and the fear of being erased from memory. The speaker’s age is deliberately impossible—being “old since the birth of time” turns personal suffering into something almost cosmic. It is not fully clear whether the “land beyond” means an afterlife, escape from darkness, or simply a different state of existence. The repeated burial image leaves the ending unresolved: the speaker remains present, yet unknown.