[Intro]
[industrial ambience, crackling fire, metallic hammer strikes, slow distorted synth pulse]
From satellites…
(To the darkest nights)
Just sparks in the dark…
(… stark…)
From electric towers…
(To loss of powers)
Back to primitive survival…
(… for all)
[Verse 1]
[mechanical groove, gritty bassline, muted guitar riffs, tribal percussion]
Cities glowing through the haze,
Built on oil-burning days,
Engines roaring without end,
Never thought the system’d bend.
Plastic rivers, smoke-filled skies,
Progress sold through polished lies,
Now the power grids collapse,
And survival maps the traps.
[Pre-Chorus]
[rising synth tension, echoing toms, layered whispered vocals]
What once looked permanent and strong,
Couldn’t outrun what went wrong,
The heat arrived, the coastlines changed,
And all the rules rearranged.
[Chorus]
[heavy drop, distorted bass, pounding drums, gang vocals]
The fossil fuel fool
(Forced back to fire and tool)
Burned his dream in steam
(Obscene scene…)
… know what I mean
The fossil fuel fool
(Back to survival school)
Ashes in the sky
(Watching systems die)
… know what I mean
[Verse 2]
[groove intensifies, industrial percussion layers, pulsing synth bass]
Generators running dry,
Supply chains fade under a burning sky,
Air too thick and rivers warm,
Human systems overthrown.
(… and overblown)
So we sharpen ancient ways,
Firelight replacing blaze,
Tools rebuilt with hand and stone,
Learning how to live alone.
Boiling water, sealing wounds,
Hiding underneath the dunes,
Cooking food to stay alive,
Trying in vain to survive.
[Pre-Chorus 2]
[synth swell, tribal drum buildup, distant choir textures]
Technology once ruled the Earth,
Then consumed its future worth,
And now the species bends once more,
Toward what fire was invented for.
[Chorus]
[expanded orchestration, heavier drums, layered chant vocals]
The fossil fuel fool
(Forced back to fire and tool)
Burned his dream in steam
(Obscene scene…)
… know what I mean
The fossil fuel fool
(Back to survival school)
Ashes in the sky
(Watching systems die)
… know what I mean
[Bridge]
[half-time breakdown, eerie piano notes, crackling fire ambience]
Civilization climbed so high…
(The consequence — to fry)
It forgot the ground beneath…
(While campfires returned underneath…)
The old knowledge wakes again…
Shelter… flame… back to “begin”…
Not conquest now…
Just endurance somehow…
[Instrumental Break]
[tribal drum solo, distorted guitar lead, metallic percussion impacts, rising synth chaos]
[Final Chorus]
[maximal intensity, full industrial rhythm section, layered choir, roaring bass]
The fossil fuel fool
(Forced back to fire and tool)
Burned his dream in steam
(Obscene scene…)
… know what I mean
The fossil fuel fool
(Rewriting every rule)
Smoke becomes the sky
(As the old world dies)
… know what I mean
[Outro]
[slow fade into crackling fire, distant thunder, low drone ambience]
One spark remains…
(Under the strains)
In the ruins of the machine…
(Know what I mean?)
[Whispered Vocal]
(“fire and tool… fire and tool…”)
… don’t be a fool..
From the album “Nagatitan“