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The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight Lyrics
Black is the sunlight shimmering below;
it flows through life and the guilt we share
Our sorrow, it cuts through the undergrowth,
as we abandon this ravenous Earth alone
The zeitgeist dimmed the surface and seized the soul
Our Mother wept behind the fence,
and we drained her blood, then forgetting her face,
and hide from everyone…
to breathe, to conquer,
to linger, to utilize the ignorant herd
In rapture from nature we divorce,
like orphans by desire,
from this closing light
The bewildered sleep -
the shadowy voyager is lurking;
he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous
The vacant, untiring Sovran of old…
He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil
We took the blood of the earth
and fell in love with death
with life itself as an excuse
Black is the sunlight shimmering below;
it flows through life and the guilt we share
We’re hiding in chorus as starry eyes close,
and seasons part in farewell;
‘cause we drained her blood, then forgetting her face
to hide from everyone
The bewildered sleep -
the shadowy voyager is lurking;
he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous
The vacant, untiring Sovran of old…
He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil
it flows through life and the guilt we share
Our sorrow, it cuts through the undergrowth,
as we abandon this ravenous Earth alone
Our Mother wept behind the fence,
and we drained her blood, then forgetting her face,
and hide from everyone…
to linger, to utilize the ignorant herd
like orphans by desire,
from this closing light
the shadowy voyager is lurking;
he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous
The vacant, untiring Sovran of old…
He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil
and fell in love with death
with life itself as an excuse
it flows through life and the guilt we share
and seasons part in farewell;
‘cause we drained her blood, then forgetting her face
to hide from everyone
the shadowy voyager is lurking;
he’s in the flesh of landscapes vaporous
The vacant, untiring Sovran of old…
He’s the machinery; igniting the paralyzed soil
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"The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight" as written by Johan Ericson and Anders Jacobsson.
This song deals with the concept of "peak oil" and may have been inspired by Thom Hartmann's book, "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight", which serves as in introduction to the subject.
Ancient Sunlight refers to fossil fuels, which can be thought of as solar energy from ages past, stored and concentrated in the bodies of decomposed organisms.
The song laments how humanity has drained the Earth's oil (referred to as black sunlight or the blood of the Earth) and used it to wreak environmental devastation.