Eighth Day

Album: Breaking Glass (1980)
Charted: 5
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  • In the beginning was a word
    Man said, "Let there be more light"
    Electric scenes and laser beams
    Neon brights to light our boring nights
    On the second day he said, "Let's have a gas
    Hydrogen and Co. are of the past
    Let's make some germs, we'll poison the worms
    Man will never be suppressed"

    And he said, "Behold what I have done
    I've made a better world for everyone
    Nobody laugh, nobody cry
    A world without end, forever and ever"
    Amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)

    On the third, we get green and blue pill pie
    On the fourth, we send rockets to the sky
    On the fifth, metal beasts and submarines
    On the sixth, man prepares his final dream
    In our image, let's make robots for our slaves
    Imagine all the time that we can save
    Computers, machines, the silicon dream
    Seventh, he retired from the scene

    And he said, "Behold what I have done
    I've made a better world for everyone
    Nobody laugh, nobody cry
    A world without end, forever and ever"
    Amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)

    On the eighth day, machine just got upset
    A problem man had never seen as yet
    No time for flight, a blinding light
    And nothing but a void, forever night

    He said, "Behold what man has done
    There's not a world for anyone
    Nobody laughed, nobody cried
    A world at an end, everyone has died"
    Forever amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)

    He said, "Behold what man has done
    There's not a world for anyone
    Nobody laughed, nobody cried
    A world at an end, everyone has died"
    Forever amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)
    (Amen) Writer/s: Hazel Thereasa O'connor
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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