Return to Planet Earth Lyrics

Photographs and fairytales

Are all we really know

Of the planet our ancestors

Deserted long ago

Remnants of our carelessness

Still rise as smoky plumes

As the barren sphere of Planet Earth

Out of the darkness looms

Welcome back

Centuries have passed

Since humanity last stared

At the world of our origins

So we are unprepared

Desolate and lifeless

As we finally descend

Burning beneath clouds of ash

Too dark to comprehend

We return to the Earth

When we touch down

The dry ground cracks

And as we step outside

All of our hope instantly dies

The seas, once so blue and full of life

Now red and clouded

We dare not even think about what lies

Beneath the surface

The landscape has been completely defaced

Nearly all signs of life erased

The land still bears the scars

Of long-forgotten wars

In the cities where the bombs fell

The streets still swamped in gore

A journey through the wasteland

Reveals no trace of hope

Our return voyage to our lander

Cut short by wind and smoke

Growing weak and hungry

Our strength begins to fail

Satellite systems obsolete

In the filthy, gusting gale

Welcome back to Planet Earth

Take for granted and reap what you've sown

Your mission was futile, you're never going home

Planet Earth is the last you'll ever know

Petrified woodlands will become our graves

The last of a species too selfish to be saved

Planet after planet was fated

To be destroyed by humankind

Why did we ever return to planet Earth?

To suffer the fate we deserve?

Headfirst into our doom

The lessons we refused to learn

Are now sealing humanity's tomb