A Word to the Wise - Skyclad

From far outside

Earth’s fragile atmosphere

It’s clearly apparent that the end is near

The sleeper wakens and removes

His golden casque

Vital signs return to his quiescent craft.

He is truth — a word to the wise

Gods children are so young

They cannot realise

The difference between extinction

And life is now only a matter of time.

In the beginning was the knowledge

He had carried far across

The great unknown

Millenia have passed since he walked

On the savannah where the seeds

Of life were sown.

Yet even deep in slumber he could hear

His children blunder to destruction

The caretaker of creation placed a fail-safe

At the heart of his construction.

Technologies intended

As mans slaves mutated

Now they are his masters

The trust they place in progress

Only serves to bring

The last days nearer faster.

He is truth — a word to the wise

Gods children are so young

They cannot realise

The difference between extinction

And life is now only a matter of time.

I can see the oceans

Stagnent and overflowing

Filled with man made waste discharged

From my cosmic auditorium

I view this crematorium

That is your world at large

My ears hear the wailing of your children

In a future close at hand

Just as it was before — so it may be again

(If you don’t try to understand)…

The seas will rise before your very eyes

Until they swallow up the land

If your polar ice caps melt

The cards are dealt

And you have died by your own hands

I will never help you while you still persist

In acting like you’re blameless

I would rather let your species die forgotten

So your folly remains nameless.

He is truth — a word to the wise

Gods children are so young

They cannot realise

The difference between extinction

And life is now only a matter of time.

When to mischief mortals bend their will

How quick they find the instruments of ill.