Another poem set to music by Joe Swordfish

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I was moved by this lyric. It is classic, yet modern.

Life Before Love by Mattchbox2112

way way back
in the future of the past
there was a shadow that burned so bright
it turned the midnight sky to ash
there was fire in the water
it had a distant sounding smell
there was something loud about the silent night
as the ice age extinguished Hell

there's three left turns before it turns out right
you can't stay awake but you wont sleep all night
you stumble on the darkness of a blinding light
you trie to get up, but you can't without a fight
so you'd better hod on tight

space and time
were discarded where they fell
what happened on that night
not a living soul could tell
the dead would take the grave yard shift
while the living were at rest
the planets spun around the earth
and the sun rose in the west