THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE

from Semantic Expansion by Bill White

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the ancient fortune teller
saw it in her crystal ball
the industrial revolution
from the beginning to the fall

the rise of automation
the cities built on vice
from the shuffling of the cards
to the last roll of the dice

we loved the giant monsters
men shrinking from radiation
never knowing we were watching
our own extermination

we loved the giant monsters
men shrinking from radiation
never knowing we were watching
our own extermination

the children of the atom bomb
at a saturday matinee
saw the future on a movie screen
brighter than the day

we saw it on the movie screen
the soul of man expire
from the night the sky exploded
to the day the earth caught fire

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from Semantic Expansion, released August 20, 2023
written and performed by bill white

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