Tusk and Bone

She said tell me again About when giants walked among us With their memories reaching back To connect with everything they saw And how they shook the ground As they raised the mighty trumpet Before we laid them low with sticks of thunder When paper still ruled our hearts Trophies on the wall Hung by rich men in the cities Bought and paid with casual intent and callous brevity We hoe and plow the fields No row left unturned We cleared a million miles With no tree left unburned We conquered every inch We beat and cracked the stone Left nothing in our wake Little but us alone With only tusk and bone And what about the one With castles made of winter And the miles of clean wide open That shown like diamonds in the sun And how they wasted in the sea As we choked upon the waters But the smoke kept rolling thick and black By the dragons we had made We hoe and plow the fields No row left unturned We cleared a million miles With no tree left unburned We conquered every inch We beat and cracked the stone Left nothing in our wake Little but us alone With only tusk and bone She said tell me again About when giants walked among us