Further Adventures Of The Time Being Lyrics

Further Adventures Of The Time Being lyrics

They built the pyramids, toiled with tons of stone

Irrigated deserts, made giant golden thrones

Built palaces in India and a dome on the moon



Illustrated ceilings, praised God with strange choirs

Fed the five thousand, built cities of spires

Felt the pull of science unravel in their minds



Charted celestial bodies and were punished for their finds

Conquered snow-peaked mountains, drove jungles to retreat

Were drowned in vicious rapids and were heralded for their feats



Fantasized in Babylon, built a home in space

Scaled the walls of China against all human odds

Won battles without hope and saw men turned into Gods



Still they hide their faces well unbetrayed by Heaven or hell

Only traces to be found although their history resounds

Disconnected they displayed all the discoveries they made



And now they wander 'round the earth beyond the realms of death or birth

If you look, you'll see them there like clouds hangin' in the air

And they said the earth was flat, sailed off the world into a vat



Turned the planets into toys then played marbles like small boys

Invented love, invented hate, hung them off the arms of fate

Hear them whisper, hear them speak, seems they found what we still seek