The Ravages Of Time

I was much too far out swimming all my life

And not waving but drowning

First there is an ocean

Then there is no ocean, then there is

And then we have a mountain range

And then a plain and a range again

Last there is a desert

Then a fertile plain, then dry again

Once there was a people

Then there were none, then some more did live

Then there was a city

Then a pile of rocks and a town again

Then they made a weapon

That destroyed the lot in a cloud of rain

Then they raised a temple

To a god who died and failed them

Then they left and traveled far

And then they flew back home again

In the gardens of the dead

When the disembodied entity said

Let there be body, let there be mind

Let there be man unkind

She gave the reasoning to me

And now the guilt is all on me

I entered in and my seed spread

Generations spawned from the visions in my head

We raised it up and we pulled it down

We advertised and marketed up town

She gave the reasoning to me

And now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out

I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

I was destroyed and I lived again

My unborn children strengthening the strain

Countless lives marching throughout time

Marking out the details of my crime

She gave the reasoning to me

And now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out

I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

Solo

And the knowledge that I have gained

Has been lost again and again and again

But it's really all the same

All that has changed is the name

She gave the reasoning to me

And now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out

I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

I can tell the world the ravages of time will seek you out

I can tell the world the savageness of mind will find you out

In the gardens of the dead...