To You Who Follow Lyrics

To you then let's pretend

Let's pretend the world doesn't end

Born you enter here the result of

All that's gone before

Let's pretend that you are five happy healthy and still alive

You move along in leaps and bounds each day you uncover

New and fertile grounds

At seven you're still enjoying school, but that will end

By eleven, as a rule and then its off to higher

And more specific schools

Sixteen comes and you're conscious of others

Of conflict around you, and the pressure above us.

At whatever age you have reached now, you're sick of

All profanity, and how you've struggled to identify

Tearing all apart bit by bit

You're older now and that's for sure

Let's not pretend anymore

Things aren't the same they change and change

They swirl about and rearrange

But we're the primal, slimicus adaptapod, able to change

The course of mighty rivers leap tall buildings in a single

Bound, lose ourselves in our imaginations, create new and

Wondrous apparitions

But we'll all die and that's for sure

Let's not pretend anymore

And you back there, who are to follow

Don't back odds you'll see tomorrow

From us front if we're to give you what we've used up

We'll have to beg steal or dig it up

And with the coming of the end, all desolation and dust

With every building encrust in rust

The dry hot winds through naked streets

Defeat

To you then, let's pretend

Let's pretend the world doesn't end