| Under Saurian Skies Under Saurian Skies is one of my earliest en devours. I started writing
it in the late 60's as a premonition of the Apocalypse mixed with my
budding interest in all things dinosaurs and environmentalism. This is
LOOOOOOONG. No hooks, no refrains, no 'beat'. It is just what
happens when a person with an interest in both symphonic and electronic
music gets paranoid and depressed. The video (on youtube.com) is stuff I crammed onto the
song a couple of years ago because no one just listens to music anymore
without a video and it seemed appropriate anyway. I can't believe that
after 45 years it still describes how I feel about these things.
So, its about a Pteranodon who emerges, re-animated from a fossil rock to cruise the sky, where he observes what we humans have done to his world. This is an undanceable piece of music with absolutely no commercial potential. |
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Lyrics In a dream he took flight Dragon glider, full moon flyer A precient wraith of time And he arose, transformed from stone, to sail the sky The world that we know may be gone by the dawn Atom firefall, red rain Dreamers of dreams gone insane So here we stand beneath Saurian Skies Their laughter floats over our world Their voices, the sun in our eyes Busy wee beasts, rushing off to appointments Bright little builders with clouds in their hands Blind with ambition and faith without reason Their ignorance cuts, spilling blood on the land Behold I sing you a tale Of a long-ago world Of a paradise failed I warn, heed a voice from the past A message from stone, this world will not last I teach only what I have seen How a Saurian kingdom so much greater than yours Was cut off with a scream! And now with the firefall demond whispering in dreams And on media screens he blinds us Ancient flyers drift homeward The saurian call out a warning Its the cry of extinction Your time is at hand, I Pteranodon beckon to thee! As so it has come to be that humans inherit the world And now that they call it their own They set about to streaking their minds and their bodies in crimson And thusly crouched in the encircling primevil darkness By the night fires behind their eyes They carve their brutal totems to know their fates Though their fears find them time and again And its through the desperate years Their tears fell from their star spangled masks And where these spatter the earth There prowl the blood demons feasting as they crawl Iron maker, fire shaker Fear the night and curse the day Maime the earth and shame the wild Drive the living things away A coffin nailed with bullets and a funeral crown Of distorted sunrises Hate and plague in the old home town You can close your eyes to it Filth and fire on the burial grounds And for each and every A grave digger digging you in deeper With automated claws This earth is the living god Once rejected, once neglected She will be gone to us forever Lost to us forever Forever more And what will we do, and where will we go? Orphaned all, we surely all should know Fire shakers, murder makrs All fall! Perhaps great titans may crouch by the sea Again in a world of sauian seed And virgin lands again will be Home to the flying and running free Agreed! Home to the flying and running free. |