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F) What Was Built O'er the Years

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Lyrics: What Was Built O'er the Years...


Built on the carcass of the past human race,

  the Megalith spires; panders each/every taste.


But taken for granted the fruits of their toils,

  and that they had nourished we would let spoil.


So accustomed to leisure, so caught up in spite;

  an inherited worry turns to the trite.


With abandon of morals the meaning's obscure,

  but the past seems to show that religions unsure.


A question arises in each stable mind;

Should this lifestyle grow onward, 

  has it grown unkind?


What was built o'er the years in a day we would waste?


The spirit is trammelled, submerged in the flesh;

  it seeks but a means to untangle the mesh.


Tho' the answers we grope [for] simply vanish our scope,

  by the complex of maze, or deceptive this haze.


We can still have our hopes that we'll soon learn the ropes

  of how to fit in the grooves where the spirit still moves.


What was built o'er the years in a day we would waste?




Background Info

Another song from my younger days, this song is mostly about the wonderful human spirit and soul that sometimes seems trapped in our mad ego driven world.


The first verse lays out how It was an incredible world and society built by our ancestors and hard won by them. But having easily inherited all that; we now seem spineless, reckless, aimless, without heart.  Perhaps lacking in purpose, and without true appreciation for what we have.


The second verse looks at the inward struggle. Almost like something from an Eckhart Tolle book (but written before those books I think), the verses portray the struggle of our better 'inner' selves against a sometimes cold and rigid society.  


The chorus observes how our world is so mad, that we have lined up enough weapons (nukes) to destroy ourselves many times over.  Truly, there is a mass psychosis of some type, but I am hopeful that the good within will prevail ... if we don't wipe ourselves out first!

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What was built O'er the Years...

Credits

 

All  instruments and vocals David Denton

Song written by David Denton Copyright circa 1987

Recorded and Published by Phenomenal Records and David Denton Copyright 2020

Copyright © 2017-2020 Phenomenal Records / Atlas Before / David Denton