See them fall In drawings on cave walls From centuries gone Their history fading Oh how they rose In grandeur and majesty! But their magick was too strong It dragged them down and they drowned In their own greed for more Their hunger for wisdom And the old ones they say That the sky has not always been this grey They held their words in their hands Sent knowledge through sky and light But forgotten their Mother Their place in the web of this ancient way A tenuous grasp of a small part of Nature And a future they'd never live to see Razed forests for towers But the waters came rushing in Oh how they shone In grandeur and majesty! But their magick was too strong It dragged them down and they drowned In their own greed for more And a future they'd never live to see And the old ones say that the Sky has not always been this way Look beyond these sands my sons And gaze into the past centuries forever lost A time where seasons thrived In light of a brilliant sun But rang aloud a clamor of greed A foul and odorous blood they drained it dry And choked the light from their skies All reason came to an end While cowering in sterile tombs Their seasons came to an end This is the wherefore we break our backs To wrest life from this soil And attend to the beat of Her feeble heart I beseech that your sons will know as well