Fever

With a shrug of her shoulders The mountain came down Tore a path all the way to the water And through my sleeping town And the trails I'd wandered All erased in the birth Of the million year old rock From the naked gasping earth Oh, my children, where you gonna go? Now you've lost the land you called your home When the Earth is burning, fever on her brow Crying, "Oh my children, who will save you now?" Now the winters hit harder The summers are fire And the rains are thе tears of a mother For her rеbellious reckless child But still the spring brings clover Amid the blackened oaks Sprays of fledgling branches And the wildflowers below Oh, my children, where you gonna go? Now you've lost the land you called your home When the Earth is burning, fever on her brow Crying, "Oh my children, who will save you now?" Farewell the family of the Holocene Farewell the fragile air, the sea, the land Five times before she's seen the rise and fall again But never by their own hand, never by their own Oh, my children Chaos was my lover But fate is my bride We will meet at the edge of the ocean And the ever rising tide Oh, my children, where you gonna go? Now you've lost the land you called your home When the Earth is burning, fever on her brow Crying, "Oh my children, who will save you now?"