Debra Cowan - Ruins By the Shore lyrics

Sometime between ice-ages they first appeared Fell hungry on the beasts and fish they speared Now all their bones are blackened And their faces are no more As we walk among the ruins by the shore They worshiped gods and thought they'd never die But now the spiders nest the tombs wherein they lie And all their bones are blackened And their faces are no more As we walk among the ruins by the shore They dreamed of golden cities raised into the air But greed drew their simple hearts into its snare Now all their bones are blackened And their faces are no more As we walk among the ruins by the shore Kings, tyrants and their empires on the Earth held sway Their belief in science took their souls away And all their bones are blackened And their faces are no more As we walk among the ruins by the shore We search the heavens and the silent sky Hoping that life will fall on blinded eyes But all our bones will blacken And our faces be no more As we lay among the ruins by the shore As we lay among the ruins by the shore