Now madness, madness, madness rules the land,

The sun burns hotter than it has before;

Mighty glaciers weep at their last stand

As evil tempests eat away the shores.

Entire species fade into the night;

What erst was green lies razed beyond repair

As brightest stars concede to urban blight,

Wan yellow skies now rule blue sovereign air.

A devil who outlasts the plague of plagues

Holds now the world wide within his grasp

And clenching with a zealot tyrant’s rage

Seems set to have the earth breathe out its last.

At dusk the skyline rages red with sin—

And Nero’s strains hang heavy on the wind.