The Avarice of Stone

[Verse 1: Ġgantija] These ancient temple stones of Gozo stand! (HEY!) While Ġgantija still holds sacred light! Now threatened by the heavy builder’s hand! (RIGHT!) That trades the universal for the slight! The bureaucrat presents his narrow view To pave the context from the ancient stone In cold contempt for all that history knew That leaves the heritage to die alone! [Pre-Chorus] They cite their meetings! Rigorous and long! But "Due Process" is a siren’s song! [Chorus: The Great Loss] WE FALL BETWEEN THE FRACTURES OF CONTROL! WHILE MODERN AVARICE DEVOURS THE SOUL! It’s not misplaced! It’s not mislaid! It’s the price of the progress... that we have paid! [Verse 2: Santa Verna] The layered soils of Santa Verna’s earth Where Neolithic children came to lie Are bartered now for bleak commercial worth While corporate boxes crowd against the sky! These sleeping infants linger in the dirt Indifference to the ancient hurt The data gone is gone for evermore A sealed dark doorway on the island’s shore! [Bridge: The Institution] Institutions don't fail because the wrong people are in charge. They fail because we allow them to define... what counts... as loss. [Verse 3: Fort Chambray] The ancient fort upon the height! Choked by concrete and the climbing crane! A brutal order dressed in legal state! That trades the bastion for a hollow gain! We raise no swords! We sound no battle cry! But watch the stones of history slowly die! [Final Chorus] WE FALL BETWEEN THE FRACTURES OF CONTROL! WHILE MODERN AVARICE DEVOURS THE SOUL! Ggantija! Santa Verna! Chambray! Watch the history... wither away!