My soundcloud farted, so i had to resubmit.

Horribly mixed, used Cubase 5 and a USB Logitech Rockback Microphone. But it has lyrics! Lots of em! In fact, this might be up there as one of the most epic things i've ever written (not meaning great, but epic as in grand, over the top, symphonic and long).

(spoken)
And so it was…
the birds would sing
The cars drove by the parks on their paved roads
The wind blew carelessly threw the trees
and nobody felt like anything was truly wrong
Ocassionally, somebody would suffer a loss,
Something would go awry
Still we were all ignorant
We were blind to what was coming

Nobody predicted the wars
The famine
The disease
The economic collapse
Religious zealots wandered the streets with their cardboard signs and their soapboxes
And the talk shows were flooded with various ways to say “I told you so”
But amidst the pointed fingers, nobody truly saw it coming.
The end of the human race
The end of civilization as we know it

It got me thinking
What’s next?
Not for us; we deserve whatever’s coming to us
But, for the earth?
Who would take our mantle as the ones who ruled the planet?
who would fill our shoes and walk the paths we walked
Learn right from wrong
Learn communication
Set up their own empires
Their own cities
Their own world
The thought baffles me at times, that we could truly end
But, there will always come a day when you see the ones you loved for the last time
and just like the leaves on the trees change
our world will die
We can fight it
We can ignore it
But the fact remains
Our time will end
Will it be today
Will it be tomorrow
Who knows
only time will tell

(sung)
Every day it seems the sky is getting darker
And every night the stars seem dimmer than before
What a world, I said, where trademarks run the people
In the end, none of it matters anymore

What happened to the morals and ideals
Which we paraded on our banners and our screeds
What were we fighting for in distant lands on distant shore
What are we doing while the humans wait and bleed
such a pretty site, to watch the burning skyline
Beauty found in tragedy; it kept me sane in all these years
‘Cause nobody did anything, against the sea of tears

Piss off a country, then you’re dealing with a slaughter
You try to quell it but the fire’s getting hotter
You make the motions till your citizens despise you
They pick another, and the cycle starts anew!
The bombs are falling, and the fallout’s spreading wider
The people dying, what to do but let it fester
You send a volley, in the hopes to stop the fighting
You’re killing them to try and stop them killing you!

It makes no sense, this violence
I never understood it true
No compromise, it’s suicide
it’s clear we’re through

(spoken)
The day the sun went out was the day it all ended
We had poisoned our planet, and blocked out the very thing which kept us alive
Crops died, people withered, and eventually populations collapsed in on themselves;
The ones who are left are still fighting, no longer for game but for survival
Still, it’s only a matter of time.
Our days are numbered,
Our time is up

I give the next race our blessing
I speak for all of us left, the ones who had seen the final days, who are living it,
Godspeed. You deserve it. I pray that you won’t make the same mistakes we did
We killed ourselves off with greed, desire, pride, vanity, and destroyed the empires we had fought for so long to create
In the end, the human condition was our downfall,
And I hope against hope that you won’t befall to your own
Take good care of this earth
It did us well
And if you take care of it
It’ll take care of you
I only wish we had seen that sooner
goodbye

(sung)
In the end, we have fallen, we are done
In the end of days, nobody has won
In the end, we are all that’s left to run
In the end, we will die, we will cry, we are done!

We Are The End! (we are over, we are through!)
We Are The End! (There’s nothing we can do!)
We Are The End!

(spoken)
What's next to come?
Only time can tell
End transmission...