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Oceans
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The propulsing streams, the wild waves
The abysmal maelstrom swirls
The sea quakes, ships find their graves
And screams of lost ones go unheard…
The world was yours, you braved the oceans
You held a high rank in human hierarchy
But without your men and your devices
The abominations of the deep dark sea await
Your last grip washed away by the ice cold, salty water
Down the ocean deep, into death
Where the fathomless cold dark depths gape
Oceans so wide
Oceans so deep
Where shoals of silvery fish
Rapidly change shape
Where corals spew plankton
Unnoted life forms turn out essential!
But you now will only contribute
To the growth and energy of your scavengers
Lost and obsolete on the ocean floor
Bioluminescent lights vaguely shine around you…
Your last grip washed away by the ice cold, salty water
Down the ocean deep, into death
A life ended where life once began
In the oceans so wide
Oceans so deep
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Islands
04:34
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An unknown variation to the standards of the world
Far away from the laws of the mainland, differently life twirled
Everything here seems different, everything unique
Separated from life’s routine, to worldly eyes mystique
‘Here evolution is proceeding with spectacular speed’
Islands
Islands - worlds within itself
Different colors, different shapes and different forms
Endemic species evolved cut-off from the norms
Evolution through isolation on unoccupied grounds
Shielded from predators and competitors they evolved their crowns
Lizards became dragons and in the glittering sunrays
With elaborated plumage birds are dancing a ballet
‘We find an abundance of unique plants’
Islands
Islands - worlds within itself
Different colors, different shapes and different forms
Endemic species evolved
Islands
Havens within the oceans
A secret gate to chances for all those who adhere
Every time that through the mist an island appears
Like stars in the heavens dots of land embellish the oceans - islands
Isolated, life rolls wildly into different motions - islands
Like stars in the heavens dots of land embellish the oceans - islands
Isolated, life rolls wildly into different motions - islands
Like stars in the heavens dots of land embellish the oceans - islands
Isolated from the predators and competitors they evolved with - islands
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Grasslands
03:57
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The sun comes up and the sun goes down
On the great green grasslands…
Vast and wide
Outstretched under the naked sky
Lie the great green grasslands
These plains seem desolate
Or is this an illusion?
Miles and miles and miles…nothing!
These plains seem desolate
But this must be an illusion
Carcass of a wildebeest, the circling vulture…
See them fly, see them run
In the burning midday sun
Over great green grasslands
Safety in numbers, safety of the flock
To distract the lion, to distract the hawk
On the great green grasslands
Plains so vast and wide
Horizons always far
Supporting gatherings of wildlife
They are the migratory herds that feed on plants
On resilient grasses that cover the sands
The sun comes up and the sun goes down
The clouds gather, the clouds come down
On the great green grasslands…
Hundreds of gazelles await the storm
Hundreds watch the landscape transform
On the great green grasslands
And as the lightning strikes, it sets the fields ablaze
Fire swallows the flesh, the flesh that here once grazed
Morning reveals smoldering bodies and all that has been burned
But through the scorched earth
The shoots of green return…
The shoots of green return
The sun comes up and the sun goes down…
The sun comes up and the sun goes down...
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Cities
03:06
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Human beings, rats and pigeons
Cockroaches, cats, dogs and mice
Concrete homes – their comfort zones
Everything within their reach
Massive blocks of concrete in the cities
Asphalting on the homes of millions
Cutting down all that stands in their way
Nests to the grounds – egg-breaking sounds
Never to burst into life
Massive blocks of concrete in the cities
Cities
Concrete, plastic, bitumen
Fiberglass, cement and steel
Carbon, chloride, solder smoke
In gasoline they sign a deal
Building and building like rats breeding in a closed cage as their world closes in…
Tension between the inhabitants builds up
As pollution increases with speed
Massive blocks of concrete in the cities
Skyscrapers, squares and factory halls
Offices, highways and malls
The overstrung idiot’s head wildly tolls
And in panic into insanity he falls
Massive blocks of concrete in the cities
Cities
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Forests
04:31
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Through forests covered in snow
Bordering to the taigas below
Where conifers withstand the cold
Graceful and centuries old
Here wails an ice-cold breeze
Through the forest trees
Through forests where leaves turn from the brightest green
In an autumnal scene
To yellow, auburn and red
Isn’t it a beautiful death?
The trees refill with life’s blood
And again the forest buds
And as the leaves absorb the sunlight
Intensive photosynthesis occurs
From chloroplasts the lifecycle recurs
Oxygen for life to breathe
Watch the vegetation wreathe
Through thickets and through swamps and…
Through forests where the dew drips from the leaves
The dense vegetation weaves
Frogs from the trees they dive
A proliferation of life
In the damp tropical heat
A million hearts beat
And as the leaves absorb the sunlight
Intensive photosynthesis occurs
From chloroplasts the lifecycle recurs
Oxygen for life to breathe
Watch the vegetation wreathe
Through thickets and through swamps and through forests
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Skies
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The world above
Grand, magnificent and out of reach…
But on the wings of the wind
Some could glide
And with wings on their skins
Some could take the skies…
Soaring high above
Mighty...
Or migrating through worlds
Dangerously...
Rain and thunder, Northern lights
Through the rainbows, through the skies…
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Mountains
04:53
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Tectonic forces and volcanism formed the giants of the earth
Landforms stretching high and mighty above the surrounding land
Weathered and eroded capriciously by glaciers, rivers and storms
The craggy path to a cold summit holds dangers for those who enter upon
No man can conquer a mountain
Surviving a visit is all he can achieve
The climb is steep, the rocks are distorted as levels of oxygen decrease
In the mountains…
O mountaineer...
Don’t you feel mocked by the grandeur of all that surrounds you?
On this altitude the precipice grins at you
Are you aware how few of you survived here?
You should have looked at these animals and plants
How well they are adapted and equipped…
But no man can conquer a mountain
Surviving a visit is all he can achieve
The climb is steep, the rocks are distorted as levels of oxygen decrease
In the mountains…
The roof of the earth stretches out high and at the summit nothing can live permanently
Treacherous rocks and avalanches
And deep caverns in glaciers lurk
In the mountains…
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Caves
05:37
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Enter the cave shaft
Leave behind your rafts
And follow me down
The flooded passageways
A deep dark maze
Make sure you don’t drown
Caves
One of the few habitats on earth
Where not a single sunray inserts
Where every single escape is cursed
All life in darkness immersed
Losing all traces
As water chases us
We run for our lives…
Waiting for days, for weeks
Hearing your starving shrieks
Will we survive?
Caves
Are these rocks gonna be our graves?
Is there a chance that we will be saved?
It’s getting harder, but we still must be brave
Though our future looks more and more depraved
The dissolution of limestone
Stalactites and stalagmites
Together they form columns
A drapery of cave crystals
Cave dwelling creatures
With the strangest features
Have here left their mark
Cockroaches breeding
In bat-droppings feeding
Surviving the dark
Caves
To this darkness still enslaved
Wondering if we will ever be saved
It's getting harder but we still must be brave
Though our future looks more and more and more depraved
Artworks in dripstone
Never to be seen by the eye
A shelter for the blind
A grave for us unlucky trespassers…
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Fresh Waters
04:33
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The breeding grounds lie up, up high up the rivers
Rivers spawned by ocean water vaporized by the sun
Condensed as snow, rain or mist they turned into mountain streams
To shape the landscape as they grew into erosive mighty rivers
And the salmon go…
Up up up against the current they go
Through fresh waters
Swim, climb, jump – en route mortality
In these fresh waters
They were born up high, up high up these rivers
And journeyed down with the current to the lakes and the seas
To spend their lives in the saline water of the oceans
Preparing for the great journey home to the place they once were born
Up up up against the current they go
Through fresh waters
Swim, climb, jump - en route mortality
In these fresh waters
Up up up against the current they go
Through fresh waters
Swim, climb, jump - there is no room for the weak
In these fresh waters
They keep on going up to the spawning grounds
They keep on jumping the falls
They grew from fry to parr to smolt to adult ocean salmon
Now battling the rapids and the obstacles the river may present
Eagles, humans, grizzly bears and seals awaiting every chance
And as they reach their destination they spawn, deteriorate and die
Up up up against the current they go
Through fresh waters
Swim, climb, jump – en route mortality
In these fresh waters
Up up up against the current they go
Through fresh waters
Swim, climb, jump – prespawn mortality
In these fresh waters
Their rotting carcasses transfer nutrients
To terrestrial wildlife and riparian woodlands
And the cycle starts again
Fields florish, flowers bloom
And everywhere life attracts life
As all life on land depends on fresh water…
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Deserts
04:30
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The sun burns – in the desert
And the land is arid and barren – in the desert
The lack of vegetation – in the desert
Exposes the unprotected surface…
In the desert...
Endless weathering – in the desert
Sand and dust storms – in the desert
Occasional downpours – in the desert
Rocks eroding
Hazards of the deserts, where lizards run through solar blizzards
Crystal stars shine on the desert night
Rattlesnakes and earthquakes, the outbreak of a sand storm that takes
Clouds of dust as the heart of the sun ignites
The scarce plants have spines – in the desert
They are tough and wiry – in the desert
Nocturnal animals – in the desert
Hide away during the day
Hazards of the deserts, where lizards run through solar blizzards
Crystal stars shine on the desert night
Rattlesnakes and earthquakes, the outbreak of a sand storm that takes
Clouds of dust as the heart of the sun ignites
In the desert...
One third of the earth
Largely abandoned
Just particles of rocks and sand...
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Frostworlds
04:52
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Bitter winds wail over the frostworlds
Inhospitable mountain tops
And palaces of frozen drops
Howling storms sweep over the frostworlds
A cold that makes the heart stop
Cursed be the seed of any crop
Another adventurer has dropped
Frost…frost…worlds
Frostworlds
Ghastly silence over the frostworlds
Plains of ice, devoid of life
In winter’s darkness death is rife
And fiercely it rises on the frostworlds
The cutting wind, the freezing cold
And still they look for a foothold
Another adventurous wild story untold
Frost…frost…worlds
Don’t set foot on the frostworlds
And yet there is life all over the frostworlds
Shores and seas – a blooming food chain
And at the mountain sides remain
Valiant ones who inhabit the frostworlds
Habitats for those to claim
Who courageously endure life’s game
But not for those who think nature can be tamed…
Frost…frost…worlds
Frostworlds
Frost…frost…worlds
Don't set foot on the frostworlds
Frost…frost…worlds
Those cursed, those damned frostworlds
Frost…frost…worlds
Stay away from the frostworlds!
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Celesterre The Hague, The Netherlands
Dark and epic heavy metal unit, functioning as the Mouth of the Earth. Sometimes describing scenes from the natural world. Sometimes issuing a warning. Always emphasizing that man is but a small and futile segment within the grandeur of nature…
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