They built the pyramids, toiled with tons of stone   Irrigated deserts, made giant golden thrones   Built palaces in India and a dome on the moon      Illustrated ceilings, praised God with strange choirs   Fed the five thousand, built cities of spires   Felt the pull of science unravel in their minds      Charted celestial bodies and were punished for their finds   Conquered snow-peaked mountains, drove jungles to retreat   Were drowned in vicious rapids and were heralded for their feats      Fantasized in Babylon, built a home in space   Scaled the walls of China against all human odds   Won battles without hope and saw men turned into Gods      Still they hide their faces well unbetrayed by Heaven or hell   Only traces to be found although their history resounds   Disconnected they displayed all the discoveries they made      And now they wander 'round the earth beyond the realms of death or birth   If you look, you'll see them there like clouds hangin' in the air   And they said the earth was flat, sailed off the world into a vat      Turned the planets into toys then played marbles like small boys   Invented love, invented hate, hung them off the arms of fate   Hear them whisper, hear them speak, seems they found what we still seek