The Ravages of Time

Lyrics

"I was much too far out 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 rock, 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 [Keyboard Solo] [Guitar 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