Epitaph (в переводе с англ. — «Эпитафия») — третий по счёту трек с альбома In the Court of the Crimson King британской прогрессив-рок-группы King Crimson. Эта песня вместе с другой — «21st Century Schizoid Man» с этого же альбома — вышла синглом в 1976 году...

1969 год! The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams Will no one lay the laurel wreath As silence drowns the screams Between the iron gates of fate The seeds of time were sown And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known; Knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools ...