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Zarathrustra – “Melancholy Demise”

(Environmental Apocalypse Music Video)

"Melancholy Demise" is a spacey rock song about a planet plundered by plutocrats and scarred by death machines. Not a happy tune, but a good one!

Embed source: YouTube; More: Zarathrustra YouTube Channel

MELANCHOLY DEMISE
(Words & Music: D. Long, 2012)

From a deluded dream, rudely awoken without care,
The world is falling to pieces in despair.
Thieves and killers rule this earth;
Natures beauty sacrificed for empty worth.

Watch the darkness rise; no more time for empty lies;
Hear the screams and hear the cries—
Melancholy demise....

When the lights go out and everything is bust,
Cities will crumble like anthills into dust.
Entropic death machines will start to rust;
The Planet shrugs its shoulders, sending ripples through its crust.
A destructive species, yet we came so far;
Dead probes still hurtle on their journey to the stars....

Watch the darkness rise; no more time for empty lies;
Hear the screams and hear the cries—
Melancholy demise....

 
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