This Earth Songtext / Lyric

In my life on earth

the things I have invented have invented me

I found my industry

I am not alone

I fashion friends from precious scraps

they hold the light they bend to serve me

joking that they don't deserve me

after days of craft and care

I lift a sword and slice the air

Such has been my time upon this earth…this earth

Then my wife returns

more beautiful then when she left the night before

I show her things I made



The filigree of ferns, diamonds, snowflakes, tears of gold

She murmurs praise, a small caress; I smile to see her happiness

Silver webs with sand engrained

that catch and hold real drops of rain

Such has been my toil upon this earth…this earth

When I'm feeling vexed I go upstairs and bury something deep

Then stand back and push a button, from a distance watch the earth explode

This earth

I love this land of mortal men

They wake to know the fire again

The things we make, the things we feel,

Armored plates and molten steel

All of these inventions of the earth.the earth…this earth.