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[Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! Narrator: Spring came But it wasn't the same And all the animals could sense something was wrong There had been a drought, then a flood Then the flowers didn't bud And the groundhog's shadow was too long [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! Winter had carved a brand Deep within the land Leaving the earth barren and bare The soil could no longer yield the vast acres of fields It had yielded in previous years Strange sky hung over head Tinted a copper crimson red Streaked with jagged shades of black Horizons seemed to absorb it Suspending the sun from it's orbit While from the ground it appeared to be cracked [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! Dense blankets of smog hovered over each city like a fog Making the clouds appear dull and gray None of the birds had returned from their winter sojourn To welcome this strange spring day Beyonder! Beyonder! Beyonder! The fixed stars and constellations had unmoored from their fixations And altered their shapes and COURSE Time stood still and motion was nil And mankind was at a loss Each month had grown shorter by a lunar quarter And the rain no longer fell The moon's pull became stronger As the nights grew longer And the days seemed hot as hell [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! The world was in a perpetual state of war And had lost track of the score In the struggle between the weak and the STRONG The conflict had been INTENSE Filled with their gross VIOLENCE Of the righteous in opposition to the WRONG There was raping and LOOTING Violence and SHOOTING Until blood ran red in the streets Discord and strife had become a way of life And each episode was ALL REPEATS [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! Soon the distant rumbling of mountains crumbling Could be heard for miles around And the splitting of turf caused by cracks in the Earth And MADE A ROARING DEAFENING SOUND Beyonder! Beyonder! Beyonder! Then the seas began to Boil and thrashed about in Turmoil Flooding all the surrounding terrain This caused the poles to shift Set icebergs adrift blocking all shipping lanes [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! Volcanic eruptions brought forth destruction The wild animals fled in fright Tropical islands split bit by bit Deserts froze overnight Forest fires BLAZED, and cities were RAZED Earthquakes, cyclones, and hail Tidal waves and typhoons accompanied flash flooding monsoons Along with hurricanes, tornadoes, and GALES Beyonder! Beyonder! Fish by the scores were washed up on the shores And were scorched as they lay in the sand And all the insects had gathered as if nothing else mattered And began to RAVAGE THE LAND [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! RATS RAN IN PACKS STAGING RAIDS AND ATTACKS ON ANYTHING EDIBLE THEY COULD FIND PANIC AND HYSTERIA SPREAD ALONG WITH PLAGUES AND BACTERIA TO UNLEASH AN EPIDEMIC ON MANKIND [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! CORPSES PILED HIGH BENEATH THE COPPER CRIMSON SKY TILL THE STENCH ROSE UP ABOVE THE CLOUDS A SCAVENGER FEAST UPON THE REMAINS OF THE DECEASED WAS ENACTED BY THE STARVED CRAZED CROWD [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! MEN STAGGERED ABOUT AS IF DRUNK WITH THEIR MINDS DEFUNCT WHILE THEIR WOMEN SWOONED AND SWAYED SINNERS LAMENTED, HYPOCRITES REPENTED WHILE A HAND-FULL OF THE RIGHTEOUS PRAYED [Chorus] First Day Beyonder! Last night Beyonder! Beginning of the end Beyonder! Of the twilight flight Beyonder! REALITY BECAME DISTORTED EXPECTING MOTHERS ABORTED AND ALL THE CHILDREN'S HAIR TURNED TO GRAY SALT TASTED SWEET IN THE SWELTERING HEAT AND YOU COULDN'T TELL THE NIGHT FROM THE DAY