I was much too far out all my life and not waving but drowning

First there is an ocean
Then there is no ocean then there is
And then we have a mountain range
And then a plain and a range again
Last there is a desert
Then a fertile plain then dry again
Once there was a people
Then there were none then some more did live

Then there was a city
Then a pile of rocks and a town again
Then they made a weapon
That destroyed the lot in a cloud of rain
Then they raised a temple
To a god who died and failed them
Then they left and travelled far
And then they flew back home again

In the gardens of the dead
When the disembodied entity said
Let there be body
Let there be mind
Let there be man unkind
She gave the reasoning to me
And now the guilt is all on me

I entered in and my seed spread
Generations spawned from the visions in my head
We raised it up and we pulled it down
We advertised and marketed up town
She gave the reasoning to me
And now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world
The ravages of time will seek you out
I can tell the world
The savageness of mind will find you out

I was destroyed and I lived again
My unborn children strengthening the strain
Countless lives marching throughout time
Marking out the details of my crime
She gave the reasoning to me
And now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world
The ravages of time will seek you out
I can tell the world
The savageness of mind will find you out

And the knowledge that I have gained
Has been lost again and again and again
But it's really all the same
All that has changed is the name
She gave the reasoning to me
And now the guilt is all on me

I can tell the world
The ravages of time will seek you out
I can tell the world
The savageness of mind will find you out

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