4th Dimension Opera House

We found a well that defies the laws of thermodynamics

We found a well that powers all our mechanics

An endless energy supply

From here in the ground

Surely, we must tell the entire town

People lined up for miles

Eagerly anticipating easier lives

But some more than others

Took days at a time

Impatience led to anger

And anger to crime

Voices escalating

Such elitist defiance

We started at self-sufficiency

And finished with violence

I could have sworn

That this was everything we ever wanted

Soon enough the well was regulated

Government running it and charging for the benefit

As you would expect

Some gained a sense of co-dependence

While others came to riot

Civil, national, continental wars

Overpopulation like never before

The fuel industry in its entirety

Was run into the ground

There were no more job opportunities

For the people of my little town

And the more poverty that struck

The more we relied on ourselves

But without jobs we have no money to fund the war

To protect our well

I guess the world before wasn't so bad after all

And so our country took the money

That it still had left

And dropped a nuclear bomb

Into the cavernous chest

Of the well

No more reason for war

No more proverbial hell

The world decided to start over

Erasing any record of the events that occurred

And ten-thousand years later

We found a well