CGMTC (Life In The Sunset Zone)

In the harbor

The ship had turned to stone

They watched from the belfry

Long bones, and cold and unsound

Their skin drawn tight

Over emaciated forms

When seconds turned to minutes

Turned to hours turned to days

The silence overcame the panic

In the aftermath, there’s nothing left to say

Of fear and doubt, the genuine despair

A symptom of an eternity

With a toothless grin

An old God gave me his name

But I laughed in his face

‘Cause it sounded all the same

His skin drawn tight

As a man whose time has passed

When seconds turned to minutes

Turned to hours turned to days

The silence overcame the panic

In the aftermath, there’s nothing left to say

Of fear and doubt, the genuine despair

They huddled by the church bells

Stayed mute amid the frost

Fifty of them starved and slept

To feed the fifteen more

When seconds turned to minutes

Turned to hours turned to days

The silence overcame the panic

In the aftermath, there’s nothing left to say

Of fear and doubt, the genuine despair

The ship that would take them

Had brought them here before

We patiently waited

In absence of rapport

It swallowed them up

Just as they’d been birthed

We patiently waited

To make anew the earth