A Window To The Past Lyrics - John Williams

From far outside it, earth's fragile atmosphere 

It's clearly apparent that the end is near 

The sleeper wakens and removes his golden casque 

Vital signs return to his quiescent craft 

He is truth, a word to the wise 

Gods children are so young 

They cannot realize the difference between extinction 

And life, is now only a matter of time 

In the beginning was the knowledge 

He had carried far across the great unknown 

Millenia have passed since he walked 

On the Savannah, where the seeds of life were sown 

Yet even deep in slumber he could hear 

His children blunder to destruction 

The caretaker of creation placed a fail safe 

At the heart of his construction 

Technologies intended as man's slaves mutated 

Now they are his masters 

The trust, they place in progress only serves to bring 

The last days nearer, faster 

He is truth, the word to the wise 

Gods children are so young 

They cannot realize the difference between extinction 

And life, is now only a matter of time 

I can see the oceans, stagnant and overflowing 

Filled with man made waste, discharged 

From my cosmic auditorium, I view this crematorium 

That is your world at large 

My ears hear the wailing of your children 

In a future, close at hand 

Just as it was before, so it may be again 

If you don't try to understand 

The seas will rise before your very eyes 

Until they swallow up the land 

If your polar ice caps melt 

The cards are dealt and you have died by your own hand 

I will never help you while you still persist 

In acting like you're blameless 

I would rather, let your species, die forgotten 

So your folly remains nameless 

He is truth, the word to the wise 

Gods children are so young 

They cannot realize the difference between extinction 

And life, is now only a matter of time 

When to mischief mortals bend their will 

How quick they find the instruments of ill 

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