Hole In The Sun
© 1999 Jim Rivers
Real Audio sample

Running from the burning skies we left the cities
No one lives there any more except in pity
Magnetic fires and poison fumes creeping down the hollow rooms
Like living in a hole in the sun

Back where it all had begun
Back in a hole in the sun

Burning rain and broken light
Campfires that glow in the night
St. John if you see me coming on the run
Don't stop me to give me a hole in the sun

Say hello to everyone
In a hole in the sun 

Stone gods with granite eyes scan the morning
Build your bombs, crack the sky you've heard the warnings
You don't know what you've done put your gods on the run
Presiding from a hole in the sun

Save your gods send your guns
Into a hole in the sun

Burning rain and broken light
Campfires that glow in the night
St. John if you see me coming on the run
I've already been to a hole in the sun

Say hello to everyone in a hole in the sun
Hole in the sun, hole in the...
Say hello to everyone in a hole in the sun

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A rock song about the Earth's environment gone wrong.

In the not to distant future the human race finally succombs to the temptation to just do it and blow each other to hell again. Several hundred years of industrial wars and the constant fueding of the have's and the have not's push the human spirit to the breaking point. It will be many more centuries before the earth recovers from this new dark age. Perhaps a millenium of stunted development. From space the bright blue jewel of the solar system is grayish green and spotted with chemical fires as the air ignites with lightning strikes that spread across the sky. In small groups all that is left of the human race sits stunned and scared, huddled around campfires glowing along the hillsides. Reduced to hunter-gatherers. Back to the beginning.

This could be our sad legacy. If we want a happy ending to this story, we'll have to write it ourselves, day by day. In all the little ways as well as in scientific and sociological leaps. We must demand a better future. Demand it of ourselves, our merchants and our governments.