This earth-Dar Williams

[ti:This earth] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:In The Time Of Gods] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This earth - Dar Williams [00:09.48]In my life on Earth [00:11.85] [00:13.04]The things I have invented have invented me [00:18.40] [00:19.97]I've found my industry [00:24.02] [00:25.83]And I am not alone [00:28.53] [00:29.59]I've fashioned friends from precious scraps [00:33.46]They hold the light they bend to serve me [00:38.39]Joking that they don't deserve me [00:42.63]After days of craft and care [00:46.13]I lift a sword and slice the air [00:50.87]Such has been my time upon this Earth [00:57.87] [00:58.68]This Earth [01:01.17] [01:03.61]When my wife returns [01:06.72] [01:07.28]More beautiful than when she left the night before [01:12.96] [01:14.03]I show her things I made [01:18.01] [01:20.13]A filigree of ferns diamond snowflakes tears of gold [01:27.77]She murmurs praise a small caress [01:31.96]I smile to see her happiness [01:36.88]Silver webs with sanded grain [01:40.39]That catch and hold real drops of rain [01:45.18]Such has been my toil upon this Earth [01:51.73] [01:52.98]This Earth [01:55.11] [01:57.85]When I'm feeling vexed I go upstairs and bury something deep [02:05.65] [02:06.21]Then stand back and push a button from a distance [02:11.58]Watch the earth explode [02:17.58] [02:22.13]This Earth [02:24.37] [02:30.93]I love this land of mortal men [02:34.54]They wake to know the fire again [02:39.42]The things we make the things we feel [02:43.10] [02:43.72]Armor plates and molten steel [02:47.15] [02:47.89]All of these inventions of the Earth [02:54.30] [02:55.61]This Earth