Hazel O'Connor Eighth Day lyrics

In the beginning was a world
Man said, "Let there be more light"
Electric scenes and laser beams
Neon brights the light abhorring nights

On the second day he said, "Let's have a gas"
Hydrogen and cholera and pest
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
World without end, forever and ever"
Amen, amen, amen

On the third we get green and blue for pie
On the fourth we send rockets to the sky
On the fifth make the 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
World without end, forever and ever"
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
World's at an end, everyone has died"
Forever amen, amen, amen

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