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