Lyrics Fable of a Failed Race - Hawkwind

Fable of a Failed Race

our legends tell
we came from a seed
that travelled at a whirl-wind speed
till it came to rest
upon this land
that once was green
is now all sand;
that buried us up to our eyes
and made us watchers
of the skies:
till shadow-wings
came for our sight
and left us to conspire with night.