My Heart to Fear - 4th Dimension Opera House lyrics

We found a well that defies the laws of thermodynamics We found a well that powers all our mechanics An endless energy supply – from here in the ground Surely, we must tell the entire town People lined up for miles Eagerly anticipating easier lives But some more than others Took days at a time Impatience led to anger And anger to crime Voices escalating Such elitist defiance We started at self-sufficiency and finished with violence I coulda sworn That this is everything we ever wanted Soon enough the wall was regulated Government running it and charging for the benefit As you would expect some gained a sense of co-dependence While others came to riot civil, national, continental wars Over-population like never before The fuel industry in its entirety Was run into the ground There were no more job opportunities For the people of my little town And the more poverty that struck The more we relied on ourselves But without jobs, we have no money to fund the war to protect our well I guess the world before wasn’t so bad after all I guess the world before wasn’t so bad after all And so our country took the money That it still had left And dropped a nuclear bomb Into the cavernous chest of the well No more reason for war, no more proverbial hell The world decided to start over Erasing any record of the events that occurred And ten thousand years later... we found a well