Eventide - Eventide lyrics

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Eventide - Eventide lyrics

Once as the grains of existence Were planted into the grounds The birds of the truth still Sang out their shining melodic sounds But time, the cruel hunter Polluted the air of the intact world So the birds were caused to fall And so the hunter caught'em all As the young trees of existence Got their eternal bright knots The first clean leaves Jumped into the lightless plots And time, the cruel hunter Polluted the area of ones leaf With bacteria called men And so the leaf’s decay began The beautiful light of former times Is replaced by night and constant crimes Whatever you strive pulls you into grief Light and life will leave the leaf Now all contacts cleave On earth, our autumn leave You wanna exploit the light Too late - it's eventide As the bacteria did Their cruel work for time Suddenly they were not more Than a worthless coat of grime Now time, the former hunter Wants to clean his hunting ground The bacteria can‘t bout So the time will wipe'em out...