Barnabas Northern Lights Lyrics

Northern Lights Lyrics

Ionospheric splendour ignites the northern skies 

 Unseen by jaded eyes 

 Preferring more an insect's view of mundane, grindstone lives 

 This planet, once a paradise before the serpent spoke 

 And greed became the rope 

 By which the race would hang itself 

 Naked, without hope

 

 Racing like lemmings to the brink of holocaust 

 With scant concern for cost 

 We fall before the god of pleasure 

 Jeopardizing without measure 

 The rarest gem of everlasting life

 

 With staggering shortsightedness our golden calves are raised 

 Ignoring former days 

 Gambling with our heritage in this self-seeking age 

 The endless quest for freedom, much like the northern lights 

 So beautiful and bright 

 But far beyond the mortal's grasp 

 As witnessed by our plight

 

 Too much casual violence 

 Too much casual sex 

 Too much casual unconcern 

 For what may happen next

 

 The endless quest for freedom, much like the northern lights 

 So beautiful and bright 

 But far beyond the mortal's grasp 

 As witnessed by our plight 

 The splendour of redemption ignites the newborn heart 

 A spiritual upstart 

 Who cannot fathom what's to come Or what will be his part

 

 Racing llike lemmings to the brink of holocaust 

 With scant concern for cost 

 We fall before the god of pleasure 

 Jeopardizing without measure 

 The rarest gem of everlasting life