This Earth

[00:08.49] In my life on earth
[00:12.29] The things I have invented have invented me
[00:18.95] I found my industry
[00:24.74] I am not alone
[00:28.81] I fashion friends from precious scraps
[00:33.13] They hold the light they bend to serve me
[00:37.76] Joking that they don't deserve me
[00:42.05] After days of craft and care
[00:45.45] I lift a sword and slice the air
[00:50.20] Such has been my time upon this earth... this earth
[01:02.66] Then my wife returns
[01:06.20] More beautiful then when she left the night before
[01:13.80] I show her things I made
[01:19.16] The filigree of ferns, diamonds, snowflakes, tears of gold
[01:27.18] She murmurs praise, a small caress; I smile to see her happiness
[01:35.87] Silver webs with sand engrained
[01:39.92] That catch and hold real drops of rain
[01:44.52] Such has been my toil upon this earth... this earth
[01:57.17] When I'm feeling vexed I go upstairs and bury something deep
[02:05.16] Then stand back and push a button, from a distance watch the earth explode
[02:21.45] This earth
[02:29.76] I love this land of mortal men
[02:33.82] They wake to know the fire again
[02:38.26] The things we make, the things we feel,
[02:42.58] Armored plates and molten steel
[02:47.16] All of these inventions of the earth.the earth... this earth.
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