"The Ilk Of Human Blindness" lyrics - 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 moneylenders
From their polystyrene temples
No-one 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 and 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 leads 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