Apollo 440 - Children of the Future lyrics
[Apollo 440 - Children of the Future lyrics]
Now, the children of the future
Tried to come to terms
With the industrialised nations and
Their corporate firms
To decontaminate the planet and
Meet their demands
Detoxify the oceans, rivers, lakes and lands
Purify the air, get rid of nuclear waste
Put it on the a rocket ship
And send it into space
Tone down, bone down, hone down, hatred!
'til love for the most
Highest creation is sacred
Rectify, recompense, re-evaluation
Clarify, satisfy, the current situation
Spiritualize, realise
Crystallise aspirations
Recognise, stabilise, the unity of nations
Take all the bullshit and bury
It with a shovel quit the lying, spying
Alibi-in' daring the devil
But the parents of the future
Like the ones in the past
Had an apocalyptic childhood and
The die was cast
Those among their leaders were the
Children of the present
And some of them were
Devious and extremely unpleasant
Irradiated, mutated, DNA deranged
Sci-fi, sinister, slick and strange
In a megalo manic, satanic
Pseudo-scientific mode
At the pavilion of oblivion based
On creed and code
The super secret, inclandestine
Indiscreet elite
Saw their conquest of nature ending in defeat
They had dared to do what
They shouldn't have done
And the planet overheated from the
Rays of the sun
You couldn't tell them nothing 'cos
They didn't wanna hear it
And were oppressing all the people 'til
They just couldn't bear it
And so the children of
The future went underground
So deep down that they couldn't be found
Fleeing for their lives for all it was worth
They burrowed in their capsules 'til
They reached the third earth
At the depth that was
Equal to the stratosphere
They met the underground dwellers
Who lived down there
These subterraneans were evolved and were
Aware of the facts
And gave the children shelter
Then covered their backs
They were illuminated, elevated
Extrasensory heightened
Transcendental, mega-mental, fully enlighten
Into teleportation, levitation, meditation
Cryptographics
Clairvoyance, telekinetics, astral travel
Telepathics comprehensive comprehension
Total memory retention
In every third eye seeing
Subterranean state of being
Within a multiple dimension
A gravitational suspension
Then they taught all the children
'bout the secrets of life
To gain inner peace instead
Of stress and strife
Meanwhile the mutated, fabricated
Tyrants and such
Were trying to colonise space but
It was mega too much
Their computers were deluders
And androgynous clones
And had the planet subdivided
Into no-go zones
With their doomsday scenarios all
Coming to pass they were holding out
In dread and doubt until the last
While the pursuit of the children
Had been in vain
With everything to lose and nothing to gain
Making war on the surface time and time again
Until the end was beginning
From beginning to end
But the children of the future
Had learnt the arts
Immunity of mind, body, spirit and hearts
They kept on evolving 'til they
The reached the stage
When the children of the future
Finally came of age
For death had taught them what life was worth
And had prepared them for the
Task of leaving planet earth
Then a starship came from
Deep within outer space
And took the children of the future
To join the cosmic race
Tried to come to terms
With the industrialised nations and
Their corporate firms
To decontaminate the planet and
Meet their demands
Detoxify the oceans, rivers, lakes and lands
Purify the air, get rid of nuclear waste
Put it on the a rocket ship
And send it into space
Tone down, bone down, hone down, hatred!
'til love for the most
Highest creation is sacred
Rectify, recompense, re-evaluation
Clarify, satisfy, the current situation
Spiritualize, realise
Crystallise aspirations
Recognise, stabilise, the unity of nations
Take all the bullshit and bury
It with a shovel quit the lying, spying
Alibi-in' daring the devil
But the parents of the future
Like the ones in the past
Had an apocalyptic childhood and
The die was cast
Those among their leaders were the
Children of the present
And some of them were
Devious and extremely unpleasant
Irradiated, mutated, DNA deranged
Sci-fi, sinister, slick and strange
In a megalo manic, satanic
Pseudo-scientific mode
At the pavilion of oblivion based
On creed and code
The super secret, inclandestine
Indiscreet elite
Saw their conquest of nature ending in defeat
They had dared to do what
They shouldn't have done
And the planet overheated from the
Rays of the sun
You couldn't tell them nothing 'cos
They didn't wanna hear it
And were oppressing all the people 'til
They just couldn't bear it
And so the children of
The future went underground
So deep down that they couldn't be found
Fleeing for their lives for all it was worth
They burrowed in their capsules 'til
They reached the third earth
At the depth that was
Equal to the stratosphere
They met the underground dwellers
Who lived down there
These subterraneans were evolved and were
Aware of the facts
And gave the children shelter
Then covered their backs
They were illuminated, elevated
Extrasensory heightened
Transcendental, mega-mental, fully enlighten
Into teleportation, levitation, meditation
Cryptographics
Clairvoyance, telekinetics, astral travel
Telepathics comprehensive comprehension
Total memory retention
In every third eye seeing
Subterranean state of being
Within a multiple dimension
A gravitational suspension
Then they taught all the children
'bout the secrets of life
To gain inner peace instead
Of stress and strife
Meanwhile the mutated, fabricated
Tyrants and such
Were trying to colonise space but
It was mega too much
Their computers were deluders
And androgynous clones
And had the planet subdivided
Into no-go zones
With their doomsday scenarios all
Coming to pass they were holding out
In dread and doubt until the last
While the pursuit of the children
Had been in vain
With everything to lose and nothing to gain
Making war on the surface time and time again
Until the end was beginning
From beginning to end
But the children of the future
Had learnt the arts
Immunity of mind, body, spirit and hearts
They kept on evolving 'til they
The reached the stage
When the children of the future
Finally came of age
For death had taught them what life was worth
And had prepared them for the
Task of leaving planet earth
Then a starship came from
Deep within outer space
And took the children of the future
To join the cosmic race