Earth / Monstrous Hummingbird - Rheostatics

The Earth was born from a little box

You ripped the lid right off the top

You couldn’t wait to collect your prize

Only now you realize…

Back in the days when the water ruled

We were cleaner and better schooled

Till the ghost of Christmas past

Turned the blue into a skating… pool

We were brave so we put on blades

Charted out across the frozen waves

To the coast of Africa

We found the race who invented shopping

But soon the world was a smaller slice

We left the fish to their own devices

We were dumb, we took the bait

But we were smart enough not to sit and wait for…

Hummingbirds

Monstrous!

Hummingbirds!

First came the wheel, then the ball of fire

The cigarette, and the radial tire

But it was cold everywhere we’d go

We drove a log car through the blinding snow

We met the King and we helped his serfs

Eating trifle in Hawaiian shirts

And they would learn to speak their minds, but

They’d learn to drown us in their blood-red… wine

Hummingbirds

Monstrous… Hummingbirds!

Monstrous!

Some started papers and printed books

That told the story of a little schnook

Who was the star of Bethlehem

Who made his mark at Budokan…

Pretty soon he was all the rage

I tried to get them to turn the page

To worry less what was in their trousers

And worry more about their fleeting powers… (Earth.)

Now it’s time that I close my eyes

I’ll sail away and photosynthesize

I’ll dream of you in the starry surf

And I’ll dream about a place I knew called Earth