i heard the news the other day,all hope was lost and gone away,rivers swelled and broke their banks,ships around all cargo sank,and waves rolled in,and swallowed up the land---and then one day the locusts came,a thousand in search of grain(?),sun beat down and baked the earth,rivers dried and turned to dirt,sun beat down and baked the earth,sun beat down and baked the earth.
chours- so i drink to better days,i drink to better days,i raise my glass and give a shout,and buy another round
...........and after drought and water came,the darkness and the orange flame,and like a curse all light was lost,barren ground neath silver frost,and rivers like red ribbons to the sea-----and on the gray and dusty plain,no blossom blade or leaf remained,the great green forests razed to the ground,in the wake of concrete townsand the smell of firerode upon the breeze,and the rivers all sick with full disease...