Land

plants as high as trees

all around your knees

you're gigantic

and wonderful

crane your neck to see

a world as it should be

and it's all yours

grazing

and at night no light

no light upon the earth

at night the only light

comes from the stars

outside of geography

outside any century

we can name

your world

and at night no light

no light upon the earth

at night the only light

comes from the stars

stars uncountable

so beautiful

so beautiful

so beautiful

we'll never know

(ace squiggly synth noises)

Look! There's some pterodactyls!

They're brilliant, covered in snow-white fur.

Don't let them see you though or they'll scoop you up

and carry you off to a gory fate.

( This is probably my favourite verse of lyrics in the j.b. canon. Almost poetic. And the only give-away is a TINY MARKING on its rear. )

and up there in the sky! Orion!

one day Osiris will come and show a world

of two-legged apes what they can do.

but they could never belong here.

and they're going to make a thousand points of light upon the earth

but you know the only light comes from the stars

stars uncountable

so beautiful

we'll never know...

A world without people

in the land before time. (repeat)