What We Left Behind

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Album Info

Release Date: 2016-05-02

Label: Soundscape

I dreamt of the earth after us,
As mountains erode and time helps the cities crumble.
So easy to think that the earth revolves around us,
That after us, the planet stops.
We who can change the weather.

When we make our world so inhospitable we can’t survive,
Life crawls blindly forward,
Consciousness revives, organisms organize.
Cells of the earth join together to create new minds.

Small lives build new worlds,
Cast a net across the surface and through layers below,
Constant construction, destruction, erosion, rebuilding.
After us, on a scaffolding of rust and ashes, salt and sand,

Digesting through it, stumbling numbly,
Vagabond life picks through the detritus and continues unconcerned.
Profligate Earth pays no mind to the foibles of her creation.
She scatters choices for those who can still choose.

Recorded 2014-2016 at Soundscape, Mountain View CA.
Mixed and mastered at Soundscape in 2016.

Packaging: 6-panel digipak
Total Time: 62:26
©2016 by Robert Rich, BMI