Critchley & Simmons - Ancient Civilisation Lyrics

You
Me
Doom
Feels free

There (How)
Vague (It)
Feels
Right now

So (look), there's a big house falling down
Ziggurats beside a river
Seven thousand years ago
There are remains

So, I feed today, took all the cannons in the park
And all the movements came today
With all the singers sitting round
They're eating popcorn all delicious
Throwing filaments in the fireplace
But their lessons are no better
And the Monday world is down

You
Me
No Sir-ee

Wait (How)
Tell how times end, how silt drowns
There is killing upon killing
In alluvial plains below

But we look for (the)
Resurrection of the dead
Sing no more numbered stale Hosannas
All convenience is fled

There are remains

Alluvial deposits, agriculture, population growth
The emergence of property, hierarchy, writing
Metallurgy, agriculture, trade, the movement of commerce
Law, bureaucracy, a civil service, temple precincts, kingship
The gods and divine kingship, war, invasion, decline and fall...