Humans Lyrics - Islands

Love bird, you flew into my window 

Now in the sticky love nest sits a widow 

The tree it fell on all the people 

Gathered there to watch it topple 

Now turn around, it's burning down 

The city we live in 

Should we mumble lies? 

Take them by surprise? 

Let them have their way with us? 

Wounds be by old enemies 

Broke my heart to see 

Foundations ripped apart 

And investments fade away 

I guess we got off to a bad start 

No oxygen 

What is the outcome? 

Hungry humans 

We've got to enslave them 

We'll burn those bridges 

When we come to them 

I'm not just their leader 

I'm also one of them 

The food supply has been depleted 

The river's ran dry just when it was needed 

The rats come out to take it over 

Singing, squeaking, "We built this city" 

It's hard to breathe 

But we couldn't leave 

Nowhere left to go 

Almost everybody died 

Drank the tears from those who cried 

We shriveled from the sodium 

And a map was found with an X on it 

So we followed it there 

And what did we find? 

An underground design 

As we entered in to our surprise 

Oxygen 

Rivers of playgrounds ? 

The ancients just stayed down 

They never stopped moving 

We stumbled towards them 

But they locked all the barn doors 

So we had to dig deeper 

We had to dig deeper 

And the deep was dark 

I wanted to sleep forever 

Wake up later, maybe never 

We had to build a civilization 

Let the planet focus on the planet's rotation 

We tried, we tried 

We really tried 

But no one could do it 

Happily alive 

Never learned how to survive 

We were humans being useless 

No oxygen 

What is the outcome? 

Hungry humans 

We've got to enslave them 

We'll burn those bridges 

When we come to them 

I'm not just their leader 

I'm also one of them 

We're freed into oblivion 

No traces of civilized living eating the earth 

We're fading to oblivion 

No traces of civilized living eaten by earth