The amazing transformation to the land of the shadows

My country turned into a haunted plateau

The mass graves dug with a backhoe

All that hatred from down below,

When was it ever real I wonder?

The lies have stolen my thunder,

How could it have happened like this?

When there was once childhood bliss

I remember a warm lover’s kiss

But there’s no longer any thankfulness,

Thought I saw you in my dreams

However everything is not what it seems

Down below the moans and the screams

The bodies of the innocent float downstream,

When was it ever real I wonder?

The lies have stolen my thunder,

Were you my final blunder?

My poor heart torn asunder

Wish I was in the land down under

Tie the tin cans to the bumper,

Not feeling too optimistic today

So I knelt down to pray

I’m just ahead of that death ray

Going to write a fatalistic essay,

When was it ever real I wonder?

The lies have stolen my thunder,

Need to stop asking questions about the past

Nothing on earth was ever meant to last

Will my ship come in from a sea so vast?

Perhaps, my estranged Darling you were my last.