Ozymandias

I once read oil was sunlight

Down onto prehistoric plants

Down to peat swamps and lake beds

And down into the sea floor

I once read oil was sunlight

Down pressurised fuel lines

Down into second gear

Down our street in a red car

Down our street in a red car

Down your path

It’s not as if you’d still be here

Down your path all your lights are on

But someone else is home

Someone else is home

Remember the creek?

It ran past our homes

Origami boats and skimming stones

And swimming down into the murky water

Into the murky water

Until down a pipe beneath these playing fields

Down

Our creek they sunk it

They sunk it down under a rubbish dump

Under a rubbish dump

Deep down under this sun scorched grass

Down past the plastics and the bottle glass

Rusting metals leach down into the water

Rusting metals leach down into the water

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

In a windblown desert they’ll stand alone

The level sands they’ll stretch far away

The sum of everything we’ve known

But down from a trickle to a stream

Down the next seven generations in your family tree

I can promise you my friend

A manmade creek will crown our hill again

Sun shining down

Water flowing down

Sun shining down

Water flowing down

Sun shining down

Water flowing down

Sun shining down

Water flowing down