Man Alive

Sun sets in the west The boy has gone to rest Mama clutch her breast All creatures great and small Graze on blood red soil And grass that grows on city streets It’s been a quiet town Since the juice went down Now something's washed up on the beach A man alive After some thousands of years Fewer than the smallest imaginable intake of breath The wisest guys in the evolution of humanity Became extinct Mother Nature loves a vacuum And so, the earth was cleansed In no time at all All creatures great and small Graze on blood red soil And grass that grows on city streets It’s been a quiet town Until the word got 'round That something washed up on the beach A man alive A man alone Washed up on the beach Just a man Whoosh