Welcoming a New Ice Age

Lonely in the stratosphere
Lonely on the high plateau
Sinking low from mental heights
Down down to see the sights
Lonely glacial line brigade
Lonely heavy head cascade
Sliding down to normal size
Down down the lucent sides

Ice age, ice age
White, white, blinding rays
Welcoming a new ice age

Frozen on the tundra trail
Freezing on the ground patrol
Sledding off the mountainside
Down down to the changing tide
Minus on the radar range
Minus on the centigrade
Not a sign of animal life
Not a sign of all mankind

Ice age, ice age
White, white, blinding rays
Welcoming a new ice age

Living at the arctic line
Paid for months of idle time
We learned about it much too late
Men who still did not believe
Thought we would watch for anything
Suddenly it's freezing me
Numbing me, shimmering
Impossible, then probable
Charted out
We watch it grow

Lovely how the evenings fall
Lovely in the winter pall
And so we watch the spreading flow
Down down to the world below
Waiting for an only plane
Waiting out our ending reign
Gearing up for shorter days
Far across the frozen straits

Ice age, ice age
White, white, blinding rays
Welcoming a new ice age