Rick Wakeman - The Flood lyrics

In the first age of man Called the Golden Age Age of happiness Age of innocence And with no seasons Was always Spring Here flowers blossomed Rivers flowed free Milk and wine Majestic forests And the air with warmth to sing And then the Silver Age began Four seasons here Winter, Summer, Autumn appeared And then the Iron Age was struck Bringing horror Crime and greed destroyed all nature Robbing Earth of its natural sources Leaving Earth stained red with blood Love was gone One by one the Gods abandoned hope for the Earth Leaving only Astraea to pine for its worth Jupiter demanded she be taken afar To find a new peace of mind in the stars Filled with rage, Gods were summoned To a meeting At the palace of heaven Along the road of the Milky Way Jupiter demanded that they flood all of the Earth Destroying its birth He told the North Wind not to scatter the clouds The South Wind was sent out to blow them together As they met with mighty crashes Torrents fell upon the Earth Then inspired by guidance They cast behind them the bones of their mother Their Mother Earth who is parent of us all As they struck the ground they found new form Flesh from moisture, the rest to bones Once more to reshape us all And then a new race began Wich owed its very existence From heroes who made man