Note From A Cold Planet

There is ice everywhere now, from pole to pole

And we live in a kind of miserable twilight

Mining what we can of the food we left behind

Mining for Campbell's Soup and Birds-Eye peas

For Heinz baked Beans and sliced Kraft cheese

Yes all the food is frozen now

all the food is frozen now

Last year we struck a forest two hundred feet below

It was perfectly preserved. It was as though

Some cryogenic process petrified it in time

It seemed a shame to drag it up and burn it

But we've no choice if we wish to stay alive

Yes, all the trees are frozen now

all the trees are frozen now

There are fourteen of us left in our group today

Three of these are women: warriors from Mandalay

The others are from Africa, America, Japan

The English cannibal is, of course, a man

He claims it is the price he has to pay

Yes, all our hearts are frozen now

all our hearts are frozen now

I know for certain there is earth below the snow

The land we lost only a few short years ago

When in our euphoric ferocity we loosed the fires

No water could extinguish. A hundred billion funeral pyres

Their fumes became our shroud. There's nowhere left to go

Yes, all our hopes are frozen now

all our hopes are frozen now

We denied ourselves the right to walk upon the Earth

To walk upon the surface of our Earth

We denied our rites, the lore of ancient wisdom

We can no longer walk upon the surface of our Earth

Denied the facts of death and the facts of birth

Yes, all our Future's frozen now

all our Future's frozen now