A Word To The Wise-Skyclad

[ti:A Word To The Wise] [ar:Skyclad] [al:Jonah's Ark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Word To The Wise - Skyclad [01:09.14]From far outside [01:11.01]Earth's fragile atmosphere [01:13.27]It's clearly apparent that the end is near [01:16.71]The sleeper wakens and removes [01:19.40]His golden casque [01:21.52]Vital signs return to his quiescent craft [01:23.95] [01:49.46]He is truth - a word to the wise [01:53.02]Gods children are so young [01:54.90]They cannot realise [01:57.27]The difference between extinction [02:00.95]And life is now only a matter of time [02:04.75] [02:25.50]In the beginning was the knowledge [02:28.37]He had carried far across [02:30.75]The great unknown [02:32.19] [02:34.13]Millenia have passed since he walked [02:37.19]On the savannah where the seeds [02:39.81]Of life were sown [02:41.63] [02:43.38]Yet even deep in slumber he could hear [02:46.25]His children blunder to destruction [02:48.81] [02:52.31]The caretaker of creation placed a fail-safe [02:55.47]At the heart of his construction [02:58.03] [03:01.90]Technologies intended [03:03.66]As mans slaves mutated [03:05.47]Now they are his masters [03:07.54] [03:10.78]The trust they place in progress [03:12.72]Only serves to bring [03:14.41]The last days nearer faster [03:16.29] [03:20.66]He is truth - a word to the wise [03:23.91]Gods children are so young [03:25.91]They cannot realise [03:28.41]The difference between extinction [03:32.04]And life is now only a matter of time [03:36.04] [04:05.53]I can see the oceans [04:07.54]Stagnent and overflowing [04:09.59]Filled with man made waste discharged [04:12.79] [04:13.97]From my cosmic auditorium [04:16.10]I view this crematorium [04:18.97]That is your world at large [04:21.78] [04:23.41]My ears hear the wailing of your children [04:26.59]In a future close at hand [04:29.22] [04:32.47]Just as it was before - so it may be again [04:37.22](If you don't try to understand) [04:39.97] [04:41.79]The seas will rise before your very eyes [04:44.41]Until they swallow up the land [04:46.84] [04:50.34]If your polar ice caps melt [04:52.34]The cards are dealt [04:53.78]And you have died by your own hands [04:56.35] [04:59.59]I will never help you while you still persist [05:02.34]In acting like you're blameless [05:04.78] [05:07.96]I would rather let your species die forgotten [05:10.84]So your folly remains nameless [05:13.91] [05:18.03]He is truth - a word to the wise [05:21.41]Gods children are so young [05:23.72]They cannot realise [05:25.78]The difference between extinction [05:29.03]And life is now only a matter of time [05:33.41] [05:35.16]"When to mischief mortals bend their will [05:37.76]How quick they find the instruments of ill "