The Ilk Of Human Blindness

Skyclad

Midsummer 2045 they lay upon 
The beaches burning 
Insects on a ball of rock 
Upon it's axis slowly turning 
Steel and concrete melanomas 
Punctuate the hot sunrise 
Spines now chilled by global warming 
Microwave their last goodbyes. 

For sixty years or more they say 
Mankind had known there'd come a day 
When there would be a price to pay. 
"Square Eyes" watched 
The fools game show 
The first to go and last to know 
Sat eating junkfood on death row 
(Feeding the fall of the human empire) 

No prophet cast the money lenders 
From their polystyrene temples 
Noone heard the penny drop 
All interest shown was incidental. 

Pity the chairman of the board 
For all these years he's piled his hoard 
But penniless he'll meet the lord 
As all the world prepares to die 
He stands before the needles eye 
Whilst countless millions pass him by 
(Fleeing the fall of the human empire) 

Recalling all those wasted hours 
Of motions passed and minutes taken 
Maybe now he feels remorse 
For all the souls he has forsaken. 

Silhouettes of living corpses 
Remnants of a transcient race 
March toward the red horizon 
Evanesce without a trace. 

The proud rub shoulders with the meek 
On debris littered city streets 
They fight like dogs for scraps to eat 
The welfare state's in dissaray 
All social order slips away 
The "Primrose Path" lead to decay 
(The Curtain falls on the human empire) 

Codes of conduct redefine 
As justice turns to legal crime 
These monsters masked by human features 
Are by far the blindest creatures.
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