Cul-de-sac Lyrics - Genesis

Wake up now 

This is the time you've waited for 

Far below 

Where shadows fester as they grow 

An army thousands strong 

Obsessed by right and wrong 

They sense their time is coming near 

So they turn towards the light 

From their region of the night 

Marching on and on 

They're nearly there, it won't be long 

You know you're on the way out 

It's just a matter of time 

You thought you'd rule the world forever 

Long live the king, and don't spare the loser 

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After all 

You're not what you thought you were at all 

You're just a natural fact 

Another cul-de-sac 

On nature's hard unfeeling trail 

Now all those dreams of old 

Will be stories left untold 

Cut off in your prime 

Extinct until the end of time 

You know you're on the way out 

It's just a matter of time 

You thought you'd rule the world forever 

Long live the king, but don't spare the loser, now 

Now the host emerges, and a shadow starts to fall 

Not one knows what hit them, none can see at all 

Even as the end approaches still they're not aware 

How can you fight a foe so deadly when you don't even know it's there? 

And now that the job is almost done 

Maybe some escape, no, not even one 

You know they're on the way out 

It's just a matter of time 

You thought you'd rule the world forever 

Long live the king, and don't spare the loser