Our Dying Island
Skyclad

I woke from my daydream--discovered my nightmare was real,
At the altar of progress to gods of ambition we kneel,
Our database deities--they cannot save us,
Microchip miracles only enslave us.
The high priests of high finance claim that their actions are wise--
But our planet still dies. . .
It dies for the want of more people who care 'bout the poisons we
pump in the seas and the air,
Yet blissfully ignorant--still unaware,
We strive for a future entwined with despair.
You say, Why waste concern on the rivers and trees--they belong to
mankind to exploit as we please?
Face up to the fact that mankind's a disease--irrelevant microbes
with colour T.V.s.
Tell me just what kind of fools would laugh and stare death in the face?
Only to worst kind of fools (like you and I--the human race).
If we laugh for long enough it could well be our epitaph,
Mother Earth will laugh the loudest--She will have the final laugh.
BUT WAIT--the time has come to realise,
BELIEVE--the truth our eyes will not disguise.
SPEAK OUT--to say, It's no concern of mine,
DECEIVED--is to be party to the crime.
We all toe the line and swallow the lies--and our island dies.
Let computers dictate our emotions--determine the way we should
feel.
Turn our backs to the future now our days are numbered,
And where will we run to when this world is plundered?
Your conscience a whisper drowned out when your avarice cries--
And humanity dies. . .
Without hot winds or tower blocks crashing--no silver-lined mushroom
clouds herald man's passing,
From the Garden of Eden--into death everlasting,
Such a high price to pay for what we took without asking.
Stupidity's legacy is passed down the years--as our knowledge
increases dispelling the fears
That the ghosts of the past may again reappear--as the dawn of the
silent apocalypse nears.
Tell me just what kind of fools would laugh and stare death in the
face?
Only the worst kind of fools (like you and I--the human race).
If we laugh for long enough it could well be our epitaph,
Mother Earth will laugh the loudest--She will have the final laugh.
(The advent of insanity--no future for humanity.
You pander to your vanity--it blinds you to reality.
In temples of indifference we hail the gods of ignorance,
And sacrifice our final chance--behold the death of innocence.)
BUT WAIT--the end is near so we must choose,
BELIEVE--that we have everything to lose.
SPEAK OUT--if empty words are all we're worth,
DECEIVED--it is the end for Mother Earth.
We all toe the line and swallow the lies--and our island dies.
If we think the world is our oyster we'll surely choke on the pearl,
It is ours for a while to respect not defile--but minds drunk with
power still whirl.
The lands we dispute are not ours to pollute--neither the air that
we breathe,
But how will we ever see reason when we can't see the wood for the trees.
Now we hold the future in the palm of our hand--place your faith
In 'Rainbow Warriors' not castles of sand,
The hourglass is empty time is slipping away--so prepare your
excuses for the Judgement Day.
Court is now in session--Mother Nature presides,
The jury are our children--whose futures we've denied.
The evidence conclusive--we have no alibi,
The victim was our planet--the verdict: MATRICIDE.
BUT WAIT--the time has come to realise,
BELIEVE--the truth our eyes will not disguise.
SPEAK OUT--to say, It's no concern of mine,
DECEIVED--is to be party to the crime.
BUT WAIT--the end is near so we must choose,
BELIEVE--that we have everything to lose.
SPEAK OUT--if empty words are all we're worth,
DECEIVED--it is the end for Mother Earth.


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  A Badtime Story   A Bellyful Of Emptiness   A Broken Promised Land   A Clown Of Thorns   A Dog In The Manger   A Good Day to Bury Bad News   A Near Life Experience   A Stranger In The Garden   A Well Beside The River   A Word To The Wise   Alone In Death's Shadow   Another Fine Mess   Any Old Irony?   Art Nazi   Bewilderbeast   Bombjour!   Brimstone Ballet   Building A Ruin   Bury Me   By George [Instrumental]   By George [Instrumental]   Cancer Of The Heart   Cardboard City   Catherine At The Wheel   Civil War Dance   Come On Eileen   Constance Eternal   Crux Of The Message   Cry Of The Land   Dead Angels On Ice   Deja-Vu Ain't What It Used To Be   Desperanto (A Song For Europe?)   Earth mother, The Sun And The Furious Host   Eirenarch   Fainting By Numbers   Gammadion Seed   Great Blow For A Day Job   Halo Of Flies   Helium   History Lessens (The Final Examination)   History Lessons   I Dubious   If I Die Laughing, It'll Be An Act Of God   Inequality Street   Intro: Pagan Man   Isle Of Jura   It Wasn't Meant To End This Way   Jeopardy   Jumping My Shadow   Just What Nobody Wanted   Karmageddon (The Suffering Silence)   Kiss My Sweet Brass [Instrumental]   Kiss My Sweet Brass [Instrumental]   Land Of The Rising Slum   Little Miss Take   Master Race   Men Of Straw   Moongleam And Meadowsweet   Mr. Malaprope & Co.   My Mother In Darkness   My Naked I   No Deposit, No Return   No Strings Attached   On With Their Heads!   Penny Dreadful   Polkageist   Polkageist!   Postcard From Planet Earth   Quantity Time   R'Vannith   Ring Stone Round   Sabre Dance [Instrumental]   Salt On The Earth (Another Man's Poison)   Schadenfreude   Science Never Sleeps   Single Phial   Sins Of Emission   Skyclad   Snake Charming   Spinning Jenny   Spiral Starecase   Spiral Starecase [Instrumental]   Still Spinning Shrapnel   Terminus   The Antibody Politic   The Cradle Will Fall   The Declaration Of Indifference   The Disenchanted Forest   The Great Brain Robbery   The Ilk Of Human Blindness   The One Piece Puzzle   The Parliament of Fools   The Present Imperfect   The Silver Cloud's Dark Lining   The Sinful Ensemble   The Sky Beneath My Feet   The Song of No-Involvement   The Thread Of Evermore   The Truth Famine   The Wickedest Man In The World   The Wickedest Man in the World [Live]   The Widdershins Jig   The Wrong Song   Think Back And Lie Of England   Thinking Allowed   Thinking Allowed   Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout)   Troublesometimes   Tunnel Visionaries   Turncoat Rebellion   Vintage Whine   When God Logs Off   Womb Of The Worm   Worn Out Sole To Heel   You Lost My Memory

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