The Church - The Further Adventures of the Time Being lyrics

They built the pyramids
Toiled with tons of stone
Irrigated deserts, built giant golden thrones
Built palaces in India and a dome on the moon
Illustrated ceilings
Praised God with strange choirs
Fed the five thousand, built cities of spires
Felt the pull of science
Unravel in their minds
Charted celestial bodies and were
Punished for their finds
Conquered snow-peaked mountains
Drove jungles to retreat
Were drowned in vicious rapids and
Were heralded for their feats

Fantasized in Babylon, built a home in space
Scaled the walls of China
Against all human odds
Won battles without hope and saw
Men turned into gods

Still they hide their faces well
Unbetrayed by Heaven or Hell
Only traces to be found
Although their history resounds
Disconnected they displayed all the
Discoveries they made
And now they wander round the earth beyond
The realms of death or birth
If you look you'll see them there
Like clouds hanging in the air
And they said the earth was flat
Sailed off the world into a vat
Turned the planets into toys then
Played marbles like small boys
Invented love, invented hate
Hung them off the arms of fate
Hear them whisper hear them speak
Seems they found what we still seek